Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To carve, cut, or etch into a material.
- transitive verb To carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into.
- transitive verb To carve, cut, or etch into a block or surface used for printing.
- transitive verb To print from a block or plate made by such a process.
- transitive verb To impress deeply as if by carving or etching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut in; make by incision; produce or form by incision on a hard surface.
- To imprint; impress deeply; infix.
- To cut or carve in sunken patterns; incise with letters or figures, or with the lines representing any object: applied especially to work on metal, but also to work on stone and other hard materials.
- To deposit in a grave; bury; inter; inhume.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To deposit in the grave; to bury.
- transitive verb obsolete To cut in; to make by incision.
- transitive verb To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
- transitive verb To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like.
- transitive verb To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To put in a
grave , tobury . - verb transitive To
carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. - verb transitive To carve (something) into a material.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- verb carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
- verb impress or affect deeply
- verb carve or cut a design or letters into
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Most English translations give "entomb" for "begraben," but I've been struck by the way the English word "engrave" includes the same root.
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There is one solo in which the soprano sings that she wants to "engrave" the crucified Jesus in her heart; the German pun is amazing in itself...
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There is one solo in which the soprano sings that she wants to "engrave" the crucified Jesus in her heart; the German pun is amazing in itself, but the music is so ravishing that I find myself caught up in its imaginative reality: it arouses feelings of tenderness and grief and devotion that I can't say I want to reject.
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Transforming tools include rotation, which allows rotation of the image to any angle, scale and shear Huge range of filters for adding distortions such as engrave, emboss, scratches, ripples etc,
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If something needs to be done, I do it, I told him in a tone of voice that would engrave the words in his brain.
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A while ago I learned to engrave copper, and I enjoyed doing it so much I was also pleased with myself for having acquired an anachronistic and highly specialized skill that I engraved every hard surface I could find.
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A while ago I learned to engrave copper, and I enjoyed doing it so much I was also pleased with myself for having acquired an anachronistic and highly specialized skill that I engraved every hard surface I could find.
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John McGiver, as the Tiffany clerk who agrees to engrave the Crackerjack ring, is superb.
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If something needs to be done, I do it, I told him in a tone of voice that would engrave the words in his brain.
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