Word Meanings - PHOTO-ENGRAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.
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- PLATEFUL
Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold. - PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - PRINTLESS
Making no imprint. Milton. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - PRINTA-BLE
Worthy to be published. - ENGRAVING
1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration - PLATEN
The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool, - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - PRINT
To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, - PLATE-GILLED
Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - PLATE
A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a - PRINTING IN
A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative. - PICTURESQUISH
Somewhat picturesque. - PLATERESQUE
Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments. - RETCH
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron. - WET PLATE
A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after - VETCH
Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa. Note: The name is also applied to many other leguminous plants of different genera; as the chichling vetch, of the - FARFETCHED
1. Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne. 2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained. - CONTEMPLATE
contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, - DEPICTURE
To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding. - VEILED PLATE
A fogged plate. - IMPRINT
to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - FOOTPLATE
See - CHICHLING; CHICHLING VETCH
A leguminous plant , with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food. - REOBTAINABLE
That may be reobtained. - ACID PROCESS
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.