engraving

CEFRC1

/ɪˈnɡreɪvɪŋ/

noun

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Examples

The engraving process for music sheets takes a considerable amount of time.
You can even add a custom engraving inside the locket, for $10 extra, of course.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.

In context

I'm not engraving them.
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.

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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.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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By surface analysis, engrave + -ing.