Engrave vs Ingrain - What's the difference?
engrave | ingrain |
(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:
To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
As verbs the difference between engrave and ingrain
is that engrave is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art while ingrain is to make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.As an adjective ingrain is
dyed with grain, or kermes.As a noun ingrain is
an ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.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 [...].
Anagrams
* ----ingrain
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Verb
(en verb)- The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
- The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.