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All woodcut synonyms

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noun woodcut

  • block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
  • carving — A carving is an object or a design that has been cut out of a material such as stone or wood.
  • design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
  • matrix — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
  • print — to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
  • engraving — A print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface.
  • picture — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
  • illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
  • portrait — a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.
  • diagram — A diagram is a simple drawing which consists mainly of lines and is used, for example, to explain how a machine works.
  • mapWalter, c1140–1209? Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist.
  • etching — A print produced by the process of etching.
  • inscription — something inscribed.
  • lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
  • blocking — the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
  • chasing — the act of chasing; pursuit: The chase lasted a day.
  • chiseling — a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
  • chiselling — (British) present participle of chisel.
  • cutting — A cutting is a piece of writing which has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
  • impression — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
  • inscribing — Present participle of inscribe.
  • intaglio — incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
  • mezzotint — a method of engraving on copper or steel by burnishing or scraping away a uniformly roughened surface.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
  • scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
  • enchasing — Present participle of enchase.
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