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silkscreening

silkscreening is the present participle and gerund of silkscreen.

Meaning of silkscreen

Verb

silkscreen (third-person singular simple present silkscreens, present participle silkscreening, simple past and past participle silkscreened)

  1. To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
    • The wall text accompanying Warhol’s small canvas with 12 electric-blue crucifixes silkscreened on a black background suggests that the repetition of crosses mirrors his Campbell’s soup cans, with the religious icon serving as “a commodity to be bought and sold.”2007 February 6, Martha Schwendener, “Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times

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Questions about silkscreening

What is silkscreening the present participle and gerund of?
Silkscreening is the present participle and gerund of silkscreen.

Words near silkscreening in the dictionary

  1. silkposts
  2. silkpunk
  3. silks
  4. silkscreen
  5. silkscreened
  6. silkscreening
  7. silkscreens
  8. silkstone
  9. Silkstone Common
  10. Silksworth
  11. silktail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: silkscreening (page history and authors); silkscreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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