(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.
Stylus
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
(n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.
(n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.
(n.) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been possible by (1) the use of specially modified SFM tips with a consistent radius of curvature of 10 nm or less, to minimize the amount of image distortion introduced by the finite dimensions of commercially available tips, (2) the optimization of a method to deposit and bind DNA molecules to the mica surface in a stable fashion, and (3) careful control of the sample humidity, to prevent solvation of the molecules and detachment from the surface by the scanning tip or stylus.
(2) The procedure consisted in an aversive stimulus that the patient received every time he traced one of the four maze-paths connected to an electric shock generator with a stylus.
(3) Alterations in surface roughness were determined and compared with an electromechanical stylus.
(4) The method of operative treatment with the fixation of the epicondyle with the help of a screw-stylus which, while fixing the fragments, allows early development of movements in the elbow articulation.
(5) Three groups of four monkeys were trained to negotiate a small hand ("stylus") maze, and to use a "pointer" to guide response in a two-choice position discrimination task.
(6) The S Pen is responsive and easy to use, but actually using a stylus on a phone feels clumsy and fiddly, meaning it can safely be ignored in favour of a finger unless you're actually trying to sketch something on-screen.
(7) As a corrective procedure, it is recommended that the baseline width produced by a round recording stylus of uniform thickness irrespective of the vertical deflection velocity should be less.
(8) The physician uses a stylus to point, draw and handwrite on a Dynamic Dialog Interface that provides the same flexibility as the paper record and numerous other advantages.
(9) Men with chronic, penetrating missile wounds of the brain were examined with two `spatial' tasks: a visually-guided stylus maze and a locomotor map-reading task.
(10) The capacity to process information during movement selection and execution was studied in Parkinsonian patients and controls in a task involving movement of a hand-held stylus between two targets whose size and separation could be systematicaly varied.
(11) The stylus is removed after insertion of the plug into the vas deferens.
(12) For 1024 points with a 25 msec sampling time, the trajectory of the stylus pen was transmitted to the computer in real time.
(13) With its large 5.7in screen and S Pen stylus, the Note 3 is unashamedly a phablet that will stretch prospective buyers hands and pockets, but provide fast and fluid experience while its at it.
(14) Pen Window allows you to perform multi-window multi-tasking, by drawing out a window of your desired size with the stylus that you can fill with a select few apps that include Google Hangouts, a browser and a calculator - something that sounds potentially useful, but ends up being laborious to use and slower than just switching between dedicated full-screen apps.
(15) At higher forces individual circular DNA molecules can be manipulated with the SFM stylus.
(16) Retroactive interference was observed during relearning of a radial stylus maze and during relearning of the locations of pairs of playing cards in a concentration game.
(17) On a modification of the Fitts Reciprocal Tapping task children moved a stylus (held in the hand or attached to a special shoe worn on the foot) between two metal targets separated by different distances.
(18) The stylus-sample forces that may be endured before sample damage occurs depends on the ambient relative humidity.
(19) A stylus with 45-degree cuspal angulation and an opposing copper-plated lower arch was used for approximation of the natural situation.
(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.