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Craving vs Engraving - What's the difference?

craving | engraving |

As nouns the difference between craving and engraving

is that craving is a strong desire; yearning while engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.

As verbs the difference between craving and engraving

is that craving is while engraving is .

craving

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cravinge, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strong desire; yearning
  • Etymology 2

    From crave.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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    engraving

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia engraving) (en noun)
  • The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
  • An engraved image.
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=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.}}
  • (music)  The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see .
  • Verb

    (head)