engraving means The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 65 out of 100.
noun
- The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
- The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
- A print produced from an engraving.“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.”
- The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.