engraving Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a print made from an engraving
  2. noun a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved
  3. noun making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them
    etching.
  4. verb carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
    scratch; inscribe; grave; engrave.
    • engrave a pen
    • engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's
    • the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree
  5. verb impress or affect deeply
    engrave.
    • The event engraved itself into her memory
  6. verb carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
    etch; engrave.
    • engrave a letter
  7. verb carve or cut a design or letters into
    etch; engrave.
    • engrave the pen with the owner's name

WordNet

En*grav"ing noun
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
  3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print. ✍ 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.

Webster 1913