Engrave vs Chisel - What's the difference?
engrave | chisel |
(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
(lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
Gravel.
(lb) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran ir flour.
A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end. It may be provided with a handle at the other end. It is used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by placing the sharp edge against the material to be cut and pushing or pounding the other end with a hammer, or mallet.
To use a chisel.
To work something with a chisel.
(informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.
In transitive terms the difference between engrave and chisel
is that engrave is to carve (something) into a material while chisel is to work something with a chisel.As a noun chisel is
gravel.engrave
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).Verb
(engrav)Synonyms
* carve, etch, inscribeEtymology 2
From .Verb
(engrav)- So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].
Anagrams
* ----chisel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* * (dialectal)Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)See also
* burin * graverVerb
- She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.
