engraving

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=grav=ing
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

engraving, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is engraved; an engraved plate.  [1913 Webster]
•  An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.  [1913 Webster]

  " Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

engraving, n. a print made from an engraved plate.

THESAURUS

engraving

CYSP sculpture, abstract, abstract art, abstraction, altarpiece, anaglyph, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, aquatint, architectural sculpture, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, autolithograph, bezel, birthmark, blaze, blemish, block, block print, blotch, bone-carving, brand, burr, calligraphy, cameo, caste mark, casting, cave art, ceramics, ceroplastics, chamfer, chase, chasing, check, checkmark, chink, chiseling, chromolithograph, cicatrix, clay sculpture, collage, color print, copperplate, copperplate print, copy, corrugation, crack, cranny, crayon engraving, cross-hatching, cut, cyclorama, dado, dapple, daub, decoration, decorative sculpture, demitint, design, designing, diptych, discoloration, dot, earmark, earth art, embossing, engravement, etch, etching, fine arts, fleck, flick, flute, fluting, folk art, founding, freckle, fresco, furrow, garden sculpture, gash, gem-cutting, gem-engraving, glass sculpture, glass-cutting, glyptic, gouge, graphic arts, graphotype, graving, groove, hack, half tint, hatching, icon, illumination, illustration, image, impress, impression, imprint, incision, inscript, inscription, intaglio, ivory-carving, jot, lentigo, likeness, line, lining, linoleum-block print, lithograph, lost-wax process, macula, mark, marking, metal sculpture, mezzotint, microgroove, miniature, modeling, molding, mole, montage, monumental sculpture, mosaic, mottle, mural, negative, nevus, nick, notch, panorama, paper sculpture, patch, photograph, photography, picture, plaster casting, plastic art, point, polka dot, portrait sculpture, prick, primitive art, print, puncture, rabbet, relief, relief-carving, relievo, representation, reproduction, rifling, rubber-block print, ruck, rut, scar, scarification, score, scoring, scotch, scratch, scratching, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shell-carving, slash, slashing, slit, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stained glass window, statuary, steel engraving, stencil, stigma, still life, stipple, stippling, stone sculpture, stonecutting, strawberry mark, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus, tableau, tapestry, tattoo, tattoo mark, the arts, tick, tint, tittle, tooling, triptych, type-cutting, vignette, wall painting, watermark, well-worn groove, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carving, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, wrinkle, xyloglyphy, xylograph

ROGET THESAURUS

engraving

Representation

N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.

Engraving

N engraving, chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point, bur, etching, aquatinta, chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate, copperplate, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint, cut, woodcut, stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype, graver, burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die, punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration, illumination, half tone, photogravure, vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece, lapidary, lapidarian, insculptured, engraved, lapidary, sculpsit, imprimit, engraving, chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point, bur, etching, aquatinta, chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate, copperplate, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint, cut, woodcut, stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype, graver, burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die, punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration, illumination, half tone, photogravure, vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece, lapidary, lapidarian, insculptured, engraved, lapidary, sculpsit, imprimit.