Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of embossing or the condition of being embossed.
- noun Embossed ornamentation.
- noun The distance between the nondeformed part of a document surface and a specified point on a printed character in optical character recognition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of embossing or forming protuberances or knobs upon a surface; the state of being embossed or studded.
- noun A prominence like a boss; a knob or jutting point.
- noun Relief; raised work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.
- noun A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The result of
embossing ; something that has been embossed. - noun The
process or act of embossing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
- noun an impression produced by pressure or printing
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Examples
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I imagined some New York City budget gap that had needed closing decades before had meant the end of embossment.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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I imagined some New York City budget gap that had needed closing decades before had meant the end of embossment.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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Yeah, backward states such as NM, require or have in the past required that all absentee ballots/ballot envelope have a notary public embossment and signature.
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During the excavation works, there have been found also two relieves and a limestone slab with a lion embossment.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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Martin Michaelis Amherst, N.H. Redesigning our currency by varying sizes, embossment or perforation as a means of assisting the blind to distinguish between denominations would impose an "undue burden" on the Treasury.
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Their bodies are covered with long, raised wales, which are caused by incisions made with a sharp instrument (such as a shell or a flint), when the patient is young; the wounds are for some time kept open with earth, and made to assume their embossment in the operation of healing.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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But on every one of them, in the centre or some other part of the embossment, appeared this image of the sun.
The Virgin of the Sun Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Dealers will inspect and add spring "embossment reinforcement" or replace the interior door assembly, if necessary.
Thestar.com - Home Page Tony Van Alphen 2011
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'The gold embossment might indeed have been done by another, but not these heads, so true to the life, and of an art so far beyond any ability of mine, that I am tempted sometimes to think that he is in league with Vulcan.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824
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But if you've been supporting the South American Leagues you might find yourself drooling over Arsenal de Sarandi shirts with their well-defined v-necks and team embossment.
Arsenal News Blog 2010
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