Roget's Thesaurus

#558. Engraving

Nouns

engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph. impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype. graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp. printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing etc. 591; three-color process. illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe [Fr.], tailpiece. [person who inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian.

Verbs

engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph etc. n.; print.

Adjectives

insculptured; engraved etc. v.. [of inscriptions on stone] lapidary.

Phrases

sculpsit [Lat.], imprimit [Lat.].