What's the difference between copperplate and galvanography?

Copperplate


Definition:

  • (n.) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
  • (n.) An impression on paper taken from such a plate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She composed her fiction in a copperplate hand, usually a single draft with very few corrections, in spiral-bound school notebooks from the Edinburgh stationer and bookseller James Thin.
  • (2) "He is capable of beautiful copperplate script, but can produce very different kinds of writing with very little resemblance to each other," Barker said.
  • (3) She has always hunted out old letters from antique markets, little scraps of billets-doux and deeds of sale, faint tracings of forgotten human hope in copperplate, the ink faded to brown and grey.
  • (4) A stylus with 45 degree angulation and an opposing copperplated lower arch of either human or Macaca fascicularis were used for approximation of the natural situation.
  • (5) Here you can get away.” On a wing dedicated to healthy, active living, motivational slogans have been painted in copperplate lettering above the cell doors reminding occupants: “Take care of your body; it’s the only place you have to live” or “Manners maketh the man”.
  • (6) Called the Jolly Roger, its walls were lined with real cutlasses and its leatherette-bound menus were decorated with compass points and written in an indecipherable copperplate script that made ordering an ice-cream float feel like a hunt for buried treasure.
  • (7) And they marvelled anew at her writing method: in copperplate handwriting, straight out in a single draft, into special spiral-bound notebooks imported from the Edinburgh stationers, James Thin.

Galvanography


Definition:

  • (n.) The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.
  • (n.) A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

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