engraving

English

Decorative engraving (sense 1) on a watch

Engraving (sense 1) on a rock

Engraving of a poppy, from 1827, in the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, US) (sense 3)

Etymology

By surface analysis, engrave +‎ -ing.

Noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

1. (art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
2. (printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.

   Hypernym: intaglio

   Hyponyms: copperplate engraving, line engraving, photoengraving, steel engraving

   Coordinate terms: drypoint, etching

3. (countable) A print produced from an engraving.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.

4. (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.

Derived terms

• wood engraving

Related terms

• engrave
• whittle
• carve

Translations

the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface

• Arabic: نَقْشْ (ar) m (naqš)

  Hijazi Arabic: نَقْش m (nagš)

• Armenian: փորագրություն (hy) (pʻoragrutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: грави́ране n (gravírane)
• Catalan: gravat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雕刻 (zh) (diāokè), 鐫刻／镌刻 (zh) (juānkè)

• Czech: rytina (cs) f
• Finnish: kaiverrus (fi), kaivertaminen (fi)
• French: gravure (fr) f
• German: Gravieren n, Stechen (de) n
• Ido: grabo (io), grabado (io)
• Italian: incisione (it)
• Japanese: 彫刻 (ja) (ちょうこく, chōkoku)
• Latin: caelātūra f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gravering m or f

  Nynorsk: gravering f

• Polish: rytownictwo n, grawerstwo n
• Portuguese: gravura (pt)
• Russian: грави́рование (ru) n (gravírovanije)
• Spanish: grabado (es) m
• Swedish: gravering (sv) c

an engraved image

• Armenian: փորագրություն (hy) (pʻoragrutʻyun), փորագրանկար (hy) (pʻoragrankar)
• Bulgarian: гравю́ра (bg) f (gravjúra)
• Dutch: gravure (nl) f or m
• Finnish: kaiverrus (fi)
• French: gravure (fr) f
• German: Gravur (de) f, Stich (de) m
• Ido: graburo (io)
• Latin: caelāmen n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gravering m or f

  Nynorsk: gravering f

• Polish: grawerka f
• Russian: гравю́ра (ru) f (gravjúra)
• Spanish: grabado (es) m
• Swedish: gravyr (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} grabado (es)

Verb

engraving

1. present participle and gerund of engrave

Further reading

• engraving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• music engraving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gravening