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printmaking

print·mak·ing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [print-mey-king]
    • /ˈprɪntˌmeɪ kɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [print-mey-king]
    • /ˈprɪntˌmeɪ kɪŋ/

Definitions of printmaking word

  • noun printmaking the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy. 1
  • noun printmaking art technique: engraving, etc. 1
  • uncountable noun printmaking Printmaking is an artistic technique which consists of making a series of pictures from an original, or from a specially prepared surface. 0
  • noun printmaking an artistic technique that consists of making a series of pictures from an original, or from a specially prepared surface 0
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Origin of printmaking

First appearance:

before 1925
One of the 11% newest English words
First recorded in 1925-30; print + making

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Parts of speech for Printmaking

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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printmaking popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • graphic arts

    any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds

  • screen-printing

    a print made by the silkscreen process.

  • silkscreen

    Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.

  • ukiyo-e

    a genre style of painting and printmaking developed in Japan from the 17th to the 19th centuries and marked by the depiction of the leisure activities of ordinary people.
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