Engrave vs Microstamping - What's the difference?
engrave | microstamping |
(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:
The use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 24, author=, title=An Opportunity for Mr. Schwarzenegger, work=New York Times
, passage=The measure would make California the first state to require that all new semiautomatic weapons be equipped with technology known as microstamping , which imprints microscopic markings as a gun fires. }}
As a verb engrave
is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.As a noun microstamping is
the use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.engrave
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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 [...].
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(wikipedia microstamping)Noun
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