Word Meanings - PHOTO-ETCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.

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• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• ETCH
  A variant of Eddish. Mortimer.
• INVOLVE
  To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve,
• INVOLVEMENT
  The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Lew Wallace.
• ETCHER
  One who etches.
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• ENGRAVED
  Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• PROCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
• PROCESSIONER
  1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
• RETCH
  Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• VETCH
  Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa. Note: The name is also applied to many other leguminous plants of different genera; as the chichling vetch, of the
• FARFETCHED
  1. Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne. 2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• CHICHLING; CHICHLING VETCH
  A leguminous plant , with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• SPETCHES
  Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.
• PHOTO-ETCHING
  A photo-engraving produced by any process involving the etching of the plate.
• DRETCH
  See DRECCHE
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• PHOTO-ETCH
  To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.
• VETCHY
  1. Consisting of vetches or of pea straw. "A vetchy bed." Spenser. 2. Abounding with vetches.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.