单词	engraving
释义	engravingen‧grav‧ing /ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A figure moved slowly through the uncertain light towards him, as faceless and monumental as Death in an old engraving. A plethora of books of topographical views at home and abroad used steel engravings, many of them of poor quality. Crocker's engraving was published on l June 1802; five days later, aged 52, Charles the Cheesemonger died. He ignored both the display cases and the safe which was concealed behind a framed eighteenth-century engraving of the City of London. I came one day on a folder full of tinted engravings. Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms. Queequeg sees engravings on the coin which remind him of the tattoos on his body. The first of these was wood engraving, done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife. word sets WORD SETS► Design cross-hatching, nouncutaway, adjectivedesigner, noundrawing board, nounemblem, nounengrave, verbengraving, nounetch, verbetching, nounflowery, adjectivefluted, adjectiveherringbone, nounincise, verbinlaid, adjectivepaisley, nounpatterned, adjectiveplot, nounreticulated, adjectiveschema, nounscroll, nounsection, nounstyle, verbswirl, nountracing, nountracing paper, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► wood · The first of these was wood engraving, done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife. 1[countable] a picture made by cutting a design into metal, putting ink on the metal, and then printing it2[uncountable] the skill of engraving things
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