Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A figure or design carved into or beneath the surface of hard metal or stone.
- noun The art or process of carving a design in this manner.
- noun A gemstone carved in intaglio.
- noun Printing done with a plate bearing an image in intaglio.
- noun A die incised so as to produce a design in relief.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To incise; engrave with a sunk pattern or design.
- noun Incised engraving as opposed to carving in relief; ornamentation by lines, patterns, figures, etc., sunk or hollowed below the surface.
- noun Hence A figure or work so produced; an incised representation or design.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to
cameo . Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A design or piece of
art which isengraved oretched into something. - noun Any printing method in which the
ink is laid upon thesunken parts of theprinting form .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Etching, as well as engraving, falls under the umbrella term intaglio, in which a picture is carved onto a surface and the grooved areas hold the ink.
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21 The Eastern ring is rarely plain; and, its use being that of a signet, it is always in intaglio: the Egyptians invented engraving hieroglyphics on wooden stamps for marking bricks and applied the process to the ring.
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Most of the countries in the world, the United States among them, print their currency using so-called intaglio presses, in which the design is cut into the printing plate, the ink fills the incisions, and the press comes down with enormous pressure, some 50 tons on every square centimeter of paper.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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Most of the countries in the world, the United States among them, print their currency using so-called intaglio presses, in which the design is cut into the printing plate, the ink fills the incisions, and the press comes down with enormous pressure, some 50 tons on every square centimeter of paper.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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The intaglio was a dark sard beautifully cut with the head of Minerva, and Mrs. Greyson's artistic instincts were keenly alive to the exquisite delicacy of its workmanship.
The Pagans Arlo Bates 1884
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Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have borrowed a technique from such "intaglio" printing to create snapshots describing the behavior of immune cell populations at a moment in time.
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Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have borrowed a technique from such "intaglio" printing to create snapshots describing the behavior of immune cell populations at a moment in time.
innovations-report 2008
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The flash page is intaglio printed if you can believe that.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Though the text was still printed on a flat-bed press, copper engravings required an intaglio press, meaning a separate procedure.
Four Centuries of Love and Suffering for the Word Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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The flash page is intaglio printed if you can believe that.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
chained_bear commented on the word intaglio
"I tipped a small puddle of melted wax onto the tabletop and set the fresh candle in it, heedless of damage to the Duke's intaglio."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 835
January 3, 2010