What's the difference between embossing and engraving?

Embossing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emboss

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
  • (3) In the passive task, subjects sat with their arms and hands immobilized while a rotating drum stimulator pressed the embossed letters onto the right index finger.
  • (4) A rare but distressing complication of frontal embossment was managed after osteoplastic flap surgery.
  • (5) This Registry, while accelerating and embossing confirmation of the suspected relationship, served an even more useful purpose by collecting under one roof and in front of one cluster of observers all the necessary and relevant data on a sufficiently large number of cases to enable rapid (1973-1974) wide dissemination of knowledge about the occurrence and behavior of the disease and its response to treatment.
  • (6) She was left at Nizhny Novgorod's railway station with her passport but no money, still wearing her prison overalls embossed with her name and prisoner number.
  • (7) Experiment 2 showed that tilt lowered performance for tangible, large embossed letters, as well as for braille.
  • (8) Heading towards the narrowest capillary spaces, groups of bacilli form, immediately after seeding, protrusions that emboss the outer contour of the droplet ("protuberances" Fig.
  • (9) I pull out my business card with the red embossed logo of Time magazine.
  • (10) This is where Irving is happiest, rolling around in swastika-embossed paper.
  • (11) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
  • (12) Plastic surfaces embossed with patterns of dots designed to produce predictable alterations in temporal and spatial firing rate variation were used as stimuli in psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments.
  • (13) Shrunken cells with intracellular yolk granules embossed on the surface are produced by the strongly hypertonic Karnovsky's fixer (Final: 2010 mOsm).
  • (14) In the normal arachnoid membrane, two basic surface patterns were observed; one fenestrated and the other embossed with parallel fibers.
  • (15) These are inspired by the label's legendary tuxedo, le smoking , while the embossed rectangles on the packaging are modelled on art deco panelling in Yves's rue de Babylone home.
  • (16) Embossed letters, used previously in pattern recognition experiments in humans, were used to study the spatial patterns of neural activity evoked in peripheral fibers and cortical neurons in areas 3b and 1 of the primary somatosensory cortex of alert rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys.
  • (17) Embossed in gold with the letters LXB, they stayed there for the remainder of the hour-long ceremony.
  • (18) In addition, when fusion was completed, occasional double lines of large particles transiently embossed the P face of the plasma membrane (postacrosomal) side of the fusion zone.
  • (19) Embossed upon it in oh-so-subtle slightly darker grey was an advert for Facebook.
  • (20) None of the past methods of marking call numbers on the spines or covers of books-direct hand lettering by pen, brush, or stylus; affixing cold release characters; embossing by hot type; or gluing labels which are handlettered, typed, or printed-nor even present automatic data processing systems have offered all the advantages of the relatively new Se-Lin labeling system: legibility, reasonable speed of application, automatic protective covering, permanent bonding, and no need for a skilled letterer.

Engraving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrave
  • (n.) The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.
  • (n.) That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
  • (n.) An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From then on, different features were added over the years, including more use of colour, watermark portraits of the queen, highly detailed machine engravings, reflective foil patches and holographic strips.
  • (2) The authors devised a brain biopsy technique through only one burr hole under real time monitoring, using a small foot-print transducer, 12 mm in diameter, and a special trocar with engraved scales on its surface.
  • (3) "The National Gallery of Australia currently has more than 50 engravings related to this painting, and there exist many more.
  • (4) Photograph: islandersa1 flickr They were also instructed to engrave their possessions with special metallic pens, to clutch their bags with both hands, to hide any property they might have in their cars, and not even to trust their valuables to hotel vaults.
  • (5) It has been a battle fought out in the past few days on the wall of the former US embassy, where the “Death to America” slogans that had been there since the 1979 Islamic revolution were painted over this week – only to be replaced by a plaque engraved with anti-American slogans put up by ultra-conservative students.
  • (6) And a cameraman has just spotted that the engraver is now engraving Arsenal's name into the trophy: equally premature?
  • (7) He and Mitchell agreed on a limited edition of wood engravings based on the play, printed on handmade papers.
  • (8) The stone slabs engraved in the 19th century with the name of Cromwell and his relatives are usually covered by a blue carpet bearing the RAF crest.
  • (9) Guidance of the neuritic processes can be observed with small grooves engraved on quartz and plastic substrates, and simple shapes with few processes and bifurcations on each neurite could be obtained using adhesive microstructures.
  • (10) This nitrous oxide effect was present at all dial settings studied except the lowest engraved (0.25) concentration.
  • (11) The virtues of graft were drummed in by his parents, Nettie, a bookkeeper and Martin, an engraver – so successfully that at 17 Woody was earning more than them both combined , rattling out gags for comedians and columnists.
  • (12) It was safer just to go on living together, though they did have engraved gold wedding bands, and Eva still wears hers today.
  • (13) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
  • (14) On the back of the seat was a plaque engraved with "Much-loved aunt".
  • (15) The first one is a case history, the second one is more general discussion with a fine engraving added.
  • (16) Systemic information, together with genetic information engraved on macromolecules and matter described by physics and chemistry, represents the existential basis of life.
  • (17) The new techniques of mechanical reproduction of photographs in printing slowly but surely replaced the lithos and wood engravings.
  • (18) If a bot manages to fool two or more of the judges, it will win its creator a gold medal engraved with Turing's image, and $100,000 (£64,000).
  • (19) And then I engraved this very delicate and traditional life drawing on to it, in words, and now that's become part of it.
  • (20) Someone, one day, may have to own up to making a considerable dent in the silverware itself, just beneath the engraving "Chelsea Football Club 2012", though this was not the time to be talking of depressions of any kind.