What's the difference between engraved and woodcut?
Engraved
Definition:
(imp.) of Engrave
(p. p.) of Engrave
(a.) Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
(a.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.
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.
Woodcut
Definition:
(n.) An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
(3) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
(4) You can tell by the figures in the Japanese woodcut behind him, Geishas in a Landscape .
(5) Age, time spent outdoors in the fall multiplied by a clothing index, and woodcutting were significantly associated with Lyme disease in logistic regression analyses.
(6) Oxford #2 The woodcut-style sleeve of The Eraser is the work of longstanding Radiohead collaborator and friend Stanley Donwood.
(7) Like the figures who constantly climb the endless flight of stairs in an MC Escher woodcut, there seems to be something impossibly wrong with the envelope of time and space that contains Yang's characters.
(8) A sixteenth century woodcut depicting atypical congenitally corrected transposition is described.
(9) In 1986 he made a wonderful series of Schleifenbilder (curlicues or whorls), in which he made images from a series of abstract whorls on a Dürer woodcut of a triumphal carriage.
(10) Kuusik lost his entire installation, which included a handmade suit patterned with scribbles that he had done when he was six and paintings based on the Dance of Death, Hans Holbein's woodcuts – "16th century pop art".
(11) A host of pamphlets with woodcut illustrations reflected public alarm at the epidemic proportions and severity of the new disease, with its disabling and sometimes deadly consequences.
(12) The world has turned upside down , as in some old woodcut: the horse is whipping the carter, and the lawyers are in protest.
(13) There is given a concise and woodcut-like survey over the history of cytology with was born by the pioneering of Hooke, Grew, Malpighi, and van Leeuwenhoek at the end of XVIIth century and three crises of this science.
(14) It’s easy to assume – after a look at a woodcut of the company comic Will Kempe skipping to pennywhistle and drum – that all the actors just got up, from the dead if necessary, and danced.
(15) He had worked with Libanus Press on a limited Thomas edition, and had exhibited some early Blake woodcuts in 1995.
(16) Before, I always thought of hanging as an abstract, faraway event existing only in ancient woodcuts or the minds of passing clouds.