engraving

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.

   Hypernyms: 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.

• engrave
• whittle
• carve

• French: gravure
• German: Gravieren, Stechen
• Italian: incisione
• Portuguese: gravura
• Russian: грави́рование
• Spanish: grabado

• French: gravure
• German: Gravur, Stich
• Russian: гравю́ра
• Spanish: grabado

1. Present participle and gerund of engrave