silk-screen process

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noun silk-screen process 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. 1
noun silk-screen process a print made by this technique. 1
verb with object silk-screen process to print by silkscreen. 1
adjective silk-screen process of, made by, or printed with silkscreen. 1
noun silk-screen process a stencil method of printing a flat color design through a piece of silk or other fine cloth on which all parts of the design not to be printed have been stopped out by an impermeable film 0

before 1940

One of the 7% newest English words

First recorded in 1940-45; silk + screen

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 78% 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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