Inscription vs Engraving - What's the difference?
inscription | engraving |
Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.
The text on a coin.
Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.
The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
An engraved image.
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As nouns the difference between inscription and engraving
is that inscription is text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone while engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.As a verb engraving is
present participle of lang=en.inscription
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(wikipedia inscription) (en noun)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.}}