GRAVURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gravure mean? 

• GRAVURE (noun)
  The noun GRAVURE has 4 senses:

1. 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

2. a printing plate used in the process of gravure

3. an intaglio print produced by gravure

4. the act of intaglio printing

  Familiarity information: GRAVURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAVURE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gravure; intaglio; intaglio printing

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)

Sense 2

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 3

Meaning:

An intaglio print produced by gravure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gravure; heliogravure; photogravure

Hypernyms ("gravure" is a kind of...):

print (a picture or design printed from an engraving)

Sense 4

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)