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Print vs Engraving - What's the difference?

print | engraving |

As verbs the difference between print and engraving

is that print is to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off while engraving is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between print and engraving

is that print is books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium while engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.

As an adjective print

is of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

print

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out'' or ''off : print out, print off.
    • Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
  • To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
    • The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
  • (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
    • Print your name here and sign below.
    I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print .
  • (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
    • How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
  • * Alexander Pope
    • From the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
  • To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
    • to print calico
  • To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
  • * Surrey
    • A look will print a thought that never may remove.
  • * Sir John Beaumont
    • Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print .
  • * Roscommon
    • some footsteps printed in the clay
  • To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  • * Dryden
    • Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

    Derived terms

    * printer * printing form * printing press

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
    • Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print .
    TV and the internet haven't killed print .
  • (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
    • Write in print using block letters.
  • (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
    • The print is too small for me to read.
  • A visible impression on a surface.
    • Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
  • A fingerprint.
    • Did the police find any prints at the scene?
  • A footprint.
  • (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
  • (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
  • (motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
  • Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.

    • Antonyms

    * (writing without connected letters) cursive

    Derived terms

    * fine print * fingerprint * footprint * in print * newsprint * out of print * pawprint * printmaking * printout * small print * thumbprint

    External links

    * (Print) ----

    engraving

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia engraving) (en noun)
  • The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
  • An engraved image.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=Foreword 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.}}
  • (music)  The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see .

    • Related terms

    * engrave * whittle * carve

    Verb

    (head)