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GRAVURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of intaglio printing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("gravure" is a kind of...):
printing (the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gravure"):
photogravure; rotogravure (using photography to produce a plate for printing)
Derivation:
engrave (carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An intaglio print produced by gravure
Synonyms:
gravure; heliogravure; photogravure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gravure" is a kind of...):
print (a picture or design printed from an engraving)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A printing plate used in the process of gravure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gravure" is a kind of...):
engraving (a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print
Synonyms:
gravure; intaglio; intaglio printing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gravure" is a kind of...):
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gravure"):
photogravure (printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods)
