Inscribe vs Engraving - What's the difference?
inscribe | engraving |
To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
(geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
An engraved image.
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As verbs the difference between inscribe and engraving
is that inscribe is to write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave while engraving is .As a noun engraving is
the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.inscribe
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* (l), (l)engraving
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(wikipedia engraving) (en noun)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.}}
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.}}