What's the difference between woodcut and woodcutting?

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.

Woodcutting


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
  • (n.) The act or art of engraving on 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.

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