(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.
Tint
Definition:
(n.) A slight coloring.
(n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
(n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
(n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
(v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tinted self-curing sealant was applied to the entire occlusal surface of each tooth.
(2) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
(3) Despite the severity of the illness, Michael, eyes shielded by tinted glasses he declined to take off when asked by photographers, promised to complete the tour.
(4) When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with rainbow-coloured lights and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile.
(5) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
(6) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
(7) Few cars have number plates; most have black-tinted windows.
(8) Clinical examination showed green tinting toward the distal ends of the most superficial strands of hair.
(9) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(10) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(11) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
(12) Mark Curry, founder and director at MAD Ventures says Singles Day will act as “both a great launch pad to showcase TINT to the Chinese market and as an opportunity to drive trial” of the new product.
(13) The Guardian view on the automated future: fewer shops and fewer people | Editorial Read more The problem with this rose-tinted view of automation, however, is its focus on big averages that take little account of individuals’ experiences.
(14) We noted a statistically significant correlation between hemoglobin concentration and the following: color tint of the lower eyelid conjunctiva, nail-bed rubor, nail-bed blanching, and palmar crease rubor.
(15) There is a political tint to this whole episode,” he added, claiming the media was taking its cue from Democrats.
(16) He relished his public status as no-nonsense voice of a common-sense socialism that had an increasingly nationalistic tint.
(17) "People with rose-tinted glasses are more responsive to positive things in the environment.
(18) Different dyes were used to tint Soflens contact lenses.
(19) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was measured by both a radial immunodiffusion (RID) kit from Immuno AG (Zurich, Switzerland) and a Tint Elize enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit from CytRx Biopool Ltd. (Umeå, Sweden) in serum samples that had been stored at -20 and -70 degrees C for six months.
(20) The transmittance properties of 96 tinted lenses were examined to determine whether these lenses met the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80.3 standards for traffic signal transmittances and color shifts.