ROTOGRAVURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rotogravure mean? 

• ROTOGRAVURE (noun)
  The noun ROTOGRAVURE has 3 senses:

1. printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

2. printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press

3. using photography to produce a plate for printing

  Familiarity information: ROTOGRAVURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROTOGRAVURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

photogravure (printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

photojournalism (journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures)

Holonyms ("rotogravure" is a part of...):

newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Using photography to produce a plate for printing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

photogravure; rotogravure

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

gravure (the act of intaglio printing)

 Context examples 

I knew now why her face was familiar—its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)