Definition of woodblock in English:

woodblock

nounˈwʊdblɒkˈwʊdˌblɑk

1A block of wood from which woodcut prints are made.
Example sentencesExamples
- Here are the pots of ink and the woodblocks, their heavy designs cut deep into the flesh of a West Indian cedar tree, felled, we are informed, in New Grant in Trinidad on March 22, 2002.
- Misawa leaves his surfaces rough - they look like expressionist woodblocks - and paints them fairly realistically.
- These scenes were for the most part printed by woodblock and some were so complex that dozens of hand-carved woodblocks were needed to achieve the subtle shading that makes these wallpapers so realistic and colorful.
- An original print is a work of art which an artist creates by processing a woodblock, a lithographic stone or plate, a silk screen, or a metal, cardboard or plastic sheet surface so that more than one identical image can be printed from it.
- And here on the bench, on the desk next to it, is a piece of carved wood which was actually a woodblock that was carved in 1564 and this is the woodblock that was actually used to print this picture of the pea-plant.
- Worse than the systematic hunt for old prints was the destruction of the old woodblocks, from which they had been produced.
- By the way, Kokei did destroy the woodblocks after he had finished a print.
- In the end he got away with a fine and a reprimand, and the woodblocks for a satirical triptych were destroyed.
- For the creation of one of these prints several woodblocks have to be carved, a key-block for the outlines and one block for each color.
- There had been printing from woodblocks before Gutenberg.
- The use of woodblocks for printing text and images was probably invented in China.
- Out of these 350 designs, 30 come from old blocks that could be saved intact and 240 are woodblocks that were recarved after patterns of old ones.
- These artists had a nearly religious belief that the artist must do the complete process of creating a woodblock himself.
- The woodblock printing technique came from China to Japan several hundred years ago.
- Watanabe's print shop was completely destroyed - and with it the woodblocks of all 500 prints created by Takahashi Hiroaki.
- Before Japan's forced opening, the only printing method for text and images known and used in the country, was the technique of woodblocks.
- He had learned the Japanese woodblock technique, which he uses for most of his prints.
- For each print, the woodblock is coated with color by the help of an ink brush.
- With each copy printed from a woodblock, the impression quality worsened due to the wear of the block.
- I listen to the music of Enya while I carve woodblocks.
- And in his spare time he cut his own woodblocks for his ‘creative prints’ on his old Kyoto estate.
1. 1.1 A block of wood, especially one forming part of a floor.
  as modifier a woodblock floor
  Example sentencesExamples
  The reception hall with mahogany woodblock floor leads to a gracious drawing room with windows on three sides overlooking the well-tended gardens.
  Faced with the challenge of selecting a flooring solution that created the right ambience, reclaimed maple woodblock from a timber flooring specialist provided the solution.
2. 1.2 A hollow wooden block used as a percussion instrument.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Activities involving clapping, playing a woodblock, or tossing a beanbag work well with more upbeat tempi since the muscle movement takes a shorter time to complete.
  ‘Dark Hills’ is especially inventive in its percussion, shuffling snares, ticking woodblocks, cowbells, and claps all underneath a simple, dreamy piano pattern and melody.
  The other plays a multiple percussion setup consisting of a seven-piece drumset supplemented by a woodblock, pedal-operated tambourine, triangle and slapstick.
  From time to time, the unending song, gently driven on by two solo violins, is punctuated by the even rapping of a woodblock and the pretty chiming of a celesta.
  A more animated idea follows, with frolicking clarinets and boisterous woodblocks.
  This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles.
  One or two tom-toms were added, and sets of woodblocks, cowbells, and other idiophones, all mounted along the rim of the bass drum.
  With Kristen playing the woodblocks and the three guitarists strumming away, we actually sound pretty good.

Definition of woodblock in US English:

woodblock

nounˈwo͝odˌbläkˈwʊdˌblɑk

1A block of wood, especially one from which woodcut prints are made.
Example sentencesExamples
- These scenes were for the most part printed by woodblock and some were so complex that dozens of hand-carved woodblocks were needed to achieve the subtle shading that makes these wallpapers so realistic and colorful.
- In the end he got away with a fine and a reprimand, and the woodblocks for a satirical triptych were destroyed.
- I listen to the music of Enya while I carve woodblocks.
- And here on the bench, on the desk next to it, is a piece of carved wood which was actually a woodblock that was carved in 1564 and this is the woodblock that was actually used to print this picture of the pea-plant.
- Before Japan's forced opening, the only printing method for text and images known and used in the country, was the technique of woodblocks.
- The woodblock printing technique came from China to Japan several hundred years ago.
- Misawa leaves his surfaces rough - they look like expressionist woodblocks - and paints them fairly realistically.
- The use of woodblocks for printing text and images was probably invented in China.
- Worse than the systematic hunt for old prints was the destruction of the old woodblocks, from which they had been produced.
- And in his spare time he cut his own woodblocks for his ‘creative prints’ on his old Kyoto estate.
- By the way, Kokei did destroy the woodblocks after he had finished a print.
- Watanabe's print shop was completely destroyed - and with it the woodblocks of all 500 prints created by Takahashi Hiroaki.
- Out of these 350 designs, 30 come from old blocks that could be saved intact and 240 are woodblocks that were recarved after patterns of old ones.
- Here are the pots of ink and the woodblocks, their heavy designs cut deep into the flesh of a West Indian cedar tree, felled, we are informed, in New Grant in Trinidad on March 22, 2002.
- There had been printing from woodblocks before Gutenberg.
- For each print, the woodblock is coated with color by the help of an ink brush.
- For the creation of one of these prints several woodblocks have to be carved, a key-block for the outlines and one block for each color.
- With each copy printed from a woodblock, the impression quality worsened due to the wear of the block.
- He had learned the Japanese woodblock technique, which he uses for most of his prints.
- An original print is a work of art which an artist creates by processing a woodblock, a lithographic stone or plate, a silk screen, or a metal, cardboard or plastic sheet surface so that more than one identical image can be printed from it.
- These artists had a nearly religious belief that the artist must do the complete process of creating a woodblock himself.
1. 1.1 A hollow wooden block used as a percussion instrument.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The other plays a multiple percussion setup consisting of a seven-piece drumset supplemented by a woodblock, pedal-operated tambourine, triangle and slapstick.
  Activities involving clapping, playing a woodblock, or tossing a beanbag work well with more upbeat tempi since the muscle movement takes a shorter time to complete.
  With Kristen playing the woodblocks and the three guitarists strumming away, we actually sound pretty good.
  From time to time, the unending song, gently driven on by two solo violins, is punctuated by the even rapping of a woodblock and the pretty chiming of a celesta.
  ‘Dark Hills’ is especially inventive in its percussion, shuffling snares, ticking woodblocks, cowbells, and claps all underneath a simple, dreamy piano pattern and melody.
  This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles.
  One or two tom-toms were added, and sets of woodblocks, cowbells, and other idiophones, all mounted along the rim of the bass drum.
  A more animated idea follows, with frolicking clarinets and boisterous woodblocks.
2. 1.2 A print made with a woodblock.
  Example sentencesExamples
  An artist normally must use several blocks when he wants to create a multi-color woodblock print.
  The collection includes a variety of American and Western watercolors, etchings, lithographs, Japanese woodblock prints, Native American art, basketry and pottery.
  The artist had created more than a hundred woodblock prints between 1918 and 1923 - all published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
  This is the woodblock picture of ‘The Empty Chair’ which appeared in the Graphic in June 1870.
  With his woodblock prints, he has built a fresh and elegant art world for us.
  The traditional art of Japanese woodblock printing never knew the distinction between the fine arts and commercial arts and between artists and artisans.
  It is probable that the woodblock prints and painted column image were not visible in 1660.
  These woodblock prints were largely commissioned by the Kabuki and Noh-Theaters and by actors as a form of advertising.
  In the United States he had experienced a very lively interest for his prints and for Japanese woodblocks in general.
  His woodblock prints are extremely rare and out of reach for an average ukiyo-e collector.
  Then artists began to design, carve and print woodblock prints themselves.
  Hiroshi Yoshida created a total of 259 woodblock prints during his lifetime.
  Of particular interest was a woodblock depicting the siege of the Byzantine capital in 1453.
  All these old books were illustrated by the greatest woodblocks and sketch art.
  His early woodblock prints were published by Watanabe.
  Further investigation revealed that the black design was actually a woodblock print overlaid with green and white stencilling.
  To readers paging through the text and casually observing the woodblock image of Elizabeth and her court, Gascoigne appears to celebrate the beauty and opulence of the cult.
  The daily lives of the courtesans, samurai, actors and artists of old Edo are preserved in the colorful woodblock prints called ukiyo-e.
  Though Japan has a long history of erotic art in their woodblock prints and netsuke ivory carvings, I have never seen erotic origami before.
  All the woodblock prints we have seen so far, were printed in black against an uncolored paper background.
  Photography had replaced the woodblock print as a way of illustrating news events.

单词	woodblock
释义	Definition of woodblock in English: woodblock nounˈwʊdblɒkˈwʊdˌblɑk 1A block of wood from which woodcut prints are made. Example sentencesExamples Here are the pots of ink and the woodblocks, their heavy designs cut deep into the flesh of a West Indian cedar tree, felled, we are informed, in New Grant in Trinidad on March 22, 2002. Misawa leaves his surfaces rough - they look like expressionist woodblocks - and paints them fairly realistically. These scenes were for the most part printed by woodblock and some were so complex that dozens of hand-carved woodblocks were needed to achieve the subtle shading that makes these wallpapers so realistic and colorful. An original print is a work of art which an artist creates by processing a woodblock, a lithographic stone or plate, a silk screen, or a metal, cardboard or plastic sheet surface so that more than one identical image can be printed from it. And here on the bench, on the desk next to it, is a piece of carved wood which was actually a woodblock that was carved in 1564 and this is the woodblock that was actually used to print this picture of the pea-plant. Worse than the systematic hunt for old prints was the destruction of the old woodblocks, from which they had been produced. By the way, Kokei did destroy the woodblocks after he had finished a print. In the end he got away with a fine and a reprimand, and the woodblocks for a satirical triptych were destroyed. For the creation of one of these prints several woodblocks have to be carved, a key-block for the outlines and one block for each color. There had been printing from woodblocks before Gutenberg. The use of woodblocks for printing text and images was probably invented in China. Out of these 350 designs, 30 come from old blocks that could be saved intact and 240 are woodblocks that were recarved after patterns of old ones. These artists had a nearly religious belief that the artist must do the complete process of creating a woodblock himself. The woodblock printing technique came from China to Japan several hundred years ago. Watanabe's print shop was completely destroyed - and with it the woodblocks of all 500 prints created by Takahashi Hiroaki. Before Japan's forced opening, the only printing method for text and images known and used in the country, was the technique of woodblocks. He had learned the Japanese woodblock technique, which he uses for most of his prints. For each print, the woodblock is coated with color by the help of an ink brush. With each copy printed from a woodblock, the impression quality worsened due to the wear of the block. I listen to the music of Enya while I carve woodblocks. And in his spare time he cut his own woodblocks for his ‘creative prints’ on his old Kyoto estate. 1.1 A block of wood, especially one forming part of a floor. as modifier a woodblock floor Example sentencesExamples The reception hall with mahogany woodblock floor leads to a gracious drawing room with windows on three sides overlooking the well-tended gardens. Faced with the challenge of selecting a flooring solution that created the right ambience, reclaimed maple woodblock from a timber flooring specialist provided the solution. 1.2 A hollow wooden block used as a percussion instrument. Example sentencesExamples Activities involving clapping, playing a woodblock, or tossing a beanbag work well with more upbeat tempi since the muscle movement takes a shorter time to complete. ‘Dark Hills’ is especially inventive in its percussion, shuffling snares, ticking woodblocks, cowbells, and claps all underneath a simple, dreamy piano pattern and melody. The other plays a multiple percussion setup consisting of a seven-piece drumset supplemented by a woodblock, pedal-operated tambourine, triangle and slapstick. From time to time, the unending song, gently driven on by two solo violins, is punctuated by the even rapping of a woodblock and the pretty chiming of a celesta. A more animated idea follows, with frolicking clarinets and boisterous woodblocks. This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles. One or two tom-toms were added, and sets of woodblocks, cowbells, and other idiophones, all mounted along the rim of the bass drum. With Kristen playing the woodblocks and the three guitarists strumming away, we actually sound pretty good. Definition of woodblock in US English: woodblock nounˈwo͝odˌbläkˈwʊdˌblɑk 1A block of wood, especially one from which woodcut prints are made. Example sentencesExamples These scenes were for the most part printed by woodblock and some were so complex that dozens of hand-carved woodblocks were needed to achieve the subtle shading that makes these wallpapers so realistic and colorful. In the end he got away with a fine and a reprimand, and the woodblocks for a satirical triptych were destroyed. I listen to the music of Enya while I carve woodblocks. And here on the bench, on the desk next to it, is a piece of carved wood which was actually a woodblock that was carved in 1564 and this is the woodblock that was actually used to print this picture of the pea-plant. Before Japan's forced opening, the only printing method for text and images known and used in the country, was the technique of woodblocks. The woodblock printing technique came from China to Japan several hundred years ago. Misawa leaves his surfaces rough - they look like expressionist woodblocks - and paints them fairly realistically. The use of woodblocks for printing text and images was probably invented in China. Worse than the systematic hunt for old prints was the destruction of the old woodblocks, from which they had been produced. And in his spare time he cut his own woodblocks for his ‘creative prints’ on his old Kyoto estate. By the way, Kokei did destroy the woodblocks after he had finished a print. Watanabe's print shop was completely destroyed - and with it the woodblocks of all 500 prints created by Takahashi Hiroaki. Out of these 350 designs, 30 come from old blocks that could be saved intact and 240 are woodblocks that were recarved after patterns of old ones. Here are the pots of ink and the woodblocks, their heavy designs cut deep into the flesh of a West Indian cedar tree, felled, we are informed, in New Grant in Trinidad on March 22, 2002. There had been printing from woodblocks before Gutenberg. For each print, the woodblock is coated with color by the help of an ink brush. For the creation of one of these prints several woodblocks have to be carved, a key-block for the outlines and one block for each color. With each copy printed from a woodblock, the impression quality worsened due to the wear of the block. He had learned the Japanese woodblock technique, which he uses for most of his prints. An original print is a work of art which an artist creates by processing a woodblock, a lithographic stone or plate, a silk screen, or a metal, cardboard or plastic sheet surface so that more than one identical image can be printed from it. These artists had a nearly religious belief that the artist must do the complete process of creating a woodblock himself. 1.1 A hollow wooden block used as a percussion instrument. Example sentencesExamples The other plays a multiple percussion setup consisting of a seven-piece drumset supplemented by a woodblock, pedal-operated tambourine, triangle and slapstick. Activities involving clapping, playing a woodblock, or tossing a beanbag work well with more upbeat tempi since the muscle movement takes a shorter time to complete. With Kristen playing the woodblocks and the three guitarists strumming away, we actually sound pretty good. From time to time, the unending song, gently driven on by two solo violins, is punctuated by the even rapping of a woodblock and the pretty chiming of a celesta. ‘Dark Hills’ is especially inventive in its percussion, shuffling snares, ticking woodblocks, cowbells, and claps all underneath a simple, dreamy piano pattern and melody. This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles. One or two tom-toms were added, and sets of woodblocks, cowbells, and other idiophones, all mounted along the rim of the bass drum. A more animated idea follows, with frolicking clarinets and boisterous woodblocks. 1.2 A print made with a woodblock. Example sentencesExamples An artist normally must use several blocks when he wants to create a multi-color woodblock print. The collection includes a variety of American and Western watercolors, etchings, lithographs, Japanese woodblock prints, Native American art, basketry and pottery. The artist had created more than a hundred woodblock prints between 1918 and 1923 - all published by Watanabe Shozaburo. This is the woodblock picture of ‘The Empty Chair’ which appeared in the Graphic in June 1870. With his woodblock prints, he has built a fresh and elegant art world for us. The traditional art of Japanese woodblock printing never knew the distinction between the fine arts and commercial arts and between artists and artisans. It is probable that the woodblock prints and painted column image were not visible in 1660. These woodblock prints were largely commissioned by the Kabuki and Noh-Theaters and by actors as a form of advertising. In the United States he had experienced a very lively interest for his prints and for Japanese woodblocks in general. His woodblock prints are extremely rare and out of reach for an average ukiyo-e collector. Then artists began to design, carve and print woodblock prints themselves. Hiroshi Yoshida created a total of 259 woodblock prints during his lifetime. Of particular interest was a woodblock depicting the siege of the Byzantine capital in 1453. All these old books were illustrated by the greatest woodblocks and sketch art. His early woodblock prints were published by Watanabe. Further investigation revealed that the black design was actually a woodblock print overlaid with green and white stencilling. To readers paging through the text and casually observing the woodblock image of Elizabeth and her court, Gascoigne appears to celebrate the beauty and opulence of the cult. The daily lives of the courtesans, samurai, actors and artists of old Edo are preserved in the colorful woodblock prints called ukiyo-e. Though Japan has a long history of erotic art in their woodblock prints and netsuke ivory carvings, I have never seen erotic origami before. All the woodblock prints we have seen so far, were printed in black against an uncolored paper background. Photography had replaced the woodblock print as a way of illustrating news events.
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