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Meanings of engraving in English

Portuguese
água-forte
Catalan
gravat
Spanish
aguafuerte

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them.

água-forte
Spanish
grabado

Creating marks on the surface of a hard material, such as metal or glass, by incising with a sharp tool, when the designs or images created are for their own sake and not to be printed from.

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Examples for "etching"
Examples for "etching"
1
Light is already carrying information, collecting medical data and etching silicon chips.
The Irish Times
2
Hydrogen fluoride is used as an etching gas in the chipmaking process.
Reuters
3
Likewise, etching gas is hard to store in high volumes, he said.
Reuters
4
And Jason Fields takes your etching and raises you one QR code.
Wired
5
For seven days Scott descended, etching his own tale into mountaineering lore.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of engraving in English
1
Upbeat contributor talks about the current situation with music-engraving software company Sibelius.
Radio NZ
2
The dotted line in the engraving indicates the course of the stitches.
Encyclopedia of Needlework
3
The walls of the canyon are seen in the background of engraving.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
4
The one which is represented in the engraving is the double-horned rhinoceros.
Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
5
An engraving of the statue of the Prince is given in Vol.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
6
This engraving presents a cuff of darned net in its actual width.
The Art of Modern Lace Making
7
In the later-printed copies the foot of this engraving is most indistinct.
The Book-Hunter at Home
8
From the engraving after Sir Francis Grant in the National Portrait Gallery
The Life of George Borrow
9
The gram was delicate work, small engraving with no margin for error.
The Wise Man’s Fear
10
In Northern Italy many women were famous in sculpture, painting, and engraving.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twe...
11
I feel all the safer because nobody knows I have the engraving.
The Crimson Blind
12
Just over the sofa hung an engraving of Washington crossing the Delaware.
Andy Grant's Pluck
13
We are indebted to The London Engineer for the engraving and description.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
14
What one learns in youth endures like the engraving upon a rock.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
15
There was a quantity of the apparatus essential to engraving the plates.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
16
Our engraving represents the state of the plates after this last shot.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891
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Translations for engraving
Portuguese
água-forte
Catalan
gravat
Engraving through the time
Engraving across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common