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• Xyloglyphy is a form of sculpture, whereas xylography is engraving in wood.From the entry xyloglyphy
• With their fine bindings, steel engravings, and handsomely printed pages, the annuals were products of good bookmanship.2013, Kevin J. Hayes, Edgar Allan Poe in Context, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry bookmanship
• They support their argument with elaborate engravings from the Messak bearing chiroform patterns resembling the "open woman".2004, Sahara, number 15. From the entry chiroform
• Thermography, which imitates engraving, costs far less because it employs no dies or plates.1999, Paperie: The Art of Writing and Wrapping with Paper, page 73. From the entry thermography
• I sketch, I do a little clay modelling, engraving, lithography . . .1973, Frederick E[screet] Smith, The Persuaders!, book three, London: Pan Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry Jill of all trades and mistress of none
• Prehistoric pottery, art, cave painting, engraving can be incorporated into the exhibition as an added colourful attraction.1972 January–March, Dilip Kumar Ray, “Some Thoughts on the Problems of Arrangement of Anthropological Specimen in Museums”, in Amalendu…. From the entry cave painting
• In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word.2006, Todd P. Olson, “The Street Has Its Masters: Caravaggio and the Socially Maerginal”, in Genevieve Warwick, editor, Caravaggio…. From the entry Rabelaisian
• He also produced etchings, drypoints, wood engravings, lithographs and zincographs.2002, Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Papadakis Publisher, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry gypsography
• Despite the swept-up top, this is more Régence in feeling than Rococo, recalling the engravings of Marot and Berain.1986, Country Life, page 500. From the entry Régence
• Here he found a number of engravings some of which were enlivened with a certain amount of flatwash colour, mostly ochre.1949, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Lascaux, page 34. From the entry flatwash
• Startlingly, the much earlier Blombos cave engravings clearly fit neatly into several of Von Petzinger's categories: lines, crosshatching, cruciforms, penniforms, and perhaps others.2011, Pat Shipman, The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human, page 145. From the entry penniform
• The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", →ISBN, page 10. From the entry evangelist
• "Chasing in general can be distinguished from engraving, in that the design can be seen on the reverse or inside of the pieces.1972, Richard Came, Silver, page 7. From the entry chaser
• In wood engraving every line is forced along its direction, and the very awkwardness of the operation ultimately gives an authority to the printed line.1969, Journal of the Printing Historical Society - Issues 5-6, page 62. From the entry acrography
• Amongst the Kenya tribes the Wakamba are outstanding artistically, their figure carving, stoolmaking, wood decoration both by engraving and with wire are illustrated here.1937, Margaret Trowell, African Arts and Crafts, Their Development in the School, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 83. From the entry stoolmaking
• Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. From the entry cantle
• Attempts to show the essential curves of the animals are well known in both engraving and painting, except for the simple outlines and some of the early flatwash paintings.1986, John Waechter, Prehistoric Man: The Fascinating Story of Man's Evolution, page 74. From the entry flatwash
• Once-imagined islands, extinct peoples and lost cities from the New World to Chinese Tartary reappear in vividly colored engravings, embellished with trumpeting cherubs and snorting sea monsters.1983 April 10, R.V. Denenberg, “THE PAST SEEN IN A WORLD OF MAPS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry Chinese Tartary
• The progress of newspaper illustration can be traced in a few decades from the woodcut through line engraving, the half-tone, the mezzotint process, to rotogravure and coloroto.1927, The Iowa Journalist, volumes 3-4, page 3. From the entry coloroto
• It was a thin book bound in faded morocco, with a copper-plate engraving as a frontispiece; the pages were musty with age and stained with mould.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 616. From the entry musty
• On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The…. From the entry hang

Meaning of engraving

1. noun The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
2. noun The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
3. noun A print produced from an engraving.

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How do you use engraving in a sentence?

Engraving is used as a noun. For example: “Xyloglyphy is a form of sculpture, whereas xylography is engraving in wood.”

What is a short sentence with engraving?

“He also produced etchings, drypoints, wood engravings, lithographs and zincographs.”

What does engraving mean?

Engraving means the practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.