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Gravure

🔄 Synonyms of "Gravure"

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Word	Definition
photogravurenoun	(uncountable) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
heliogravurenoun	rotogravure (process or engraving)

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gravure"

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Word	Definition
photogravurenoun	(uncountable) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
heliogravurenoun	rotogravure (process or engraving)
line engravingnoun	Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material.
engravernoun	a person who engraves
toreuticsnoun	The art of making relief or intaglio designs, especially by chasing, carving or embossing in metal
chalypsographynoun	steel-engraving
millnoun	A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
cradlenoun	A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
rockingnoun	The motion of something that rocks.
wood engravingnoun	(countable) A print taken from such an engraving.
hot stampnoun	(metallurgy) An impression made in a hot metal forging.
geometric lathenoun	A lathe that was used for engraving banknotes and postage stamps with complicated patterns of interlacing lines, designed against forgery.
grainingnoun	The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
linecasternoun	A typesetting machine that casts entire lines of type in metal slugs.
raisingnoun	Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
rotary pressnoun	A rotary printing press
guillochénoun	Alternative form of guilloche (“pattern”). [A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.]
guillochenoun	A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.
mullarnoun	(obsolete, Scotland) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
screenprintingnoun	Alternative form of screen printing. [A printing technique in which ink is forced through a woven mesh with an ink-blocking stencil on it.]