Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A picture printed from a plateproduced by the half-tone process (which see), or the plate itself.
- Noting a print or plate, produced by the half-tone process. See above.
- noun Same as
half-tint . - noun See
semitone .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
- noun (Music) A half step.
- noun A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
- noun the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration.
- adjective Photo-engraving Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a print obtained from photoengraving
- noun an engraving used to reproduce an illustration
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Examples
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Look at that single color half-tone screened thermographic packaging!
Archive 2009-03-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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Which means taking a small, often insignificant detail, and treating enlarging those art-historical images just like a photograph—that's why you see the half-tone dots.
For Baldessari, Art Imitates Art Paul Levy 2011
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'The tale's brevity, Smith's concise writing and Pham's evocative full-page half-tone illustrations make this an attractive choice for reluctant readers.'
Akimbo and the Elephants by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by LeUyen Pham: Book summary 2010
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The fretting hand sought half-tone increments lost in the dreams of reason—
The Forgotten Puppeteer Nicolette Wong 2011
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For this reason, and this alone, I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer even if slighter, up from the heart of my problem and the problems of my people.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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The moon was full; she could see every detail of the street, the apartment blocks, the row of shops and Laundromats with steel grates pulled over the doors; at night, all the colors washed out to various degrees of half-tone shading.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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The fridge was rumbling, deep and steady, a half-tone lower than the ventilation unit on the roof of the next building.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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The moon was full; she could see every detail of the street, the apartment blocks, the row of shops and Laundromats with steel grates pulled over the doors; at night, all the colors washed out to various degrees of half-tone shading.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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The fridge was rumbling, deep and steady, a half-tone lower than the ventilation unit on the roof of the next building.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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The moon was full; she could see every detail of the street, the apartment blocks, the row of shops and Laundromats with steel grates pulled over the doors; at night, all the colors washed out to various degrees of half-tone shading.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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