stencil
Webster Dictionary
a thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate
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subduction
(subduction)
Princeton's WordNet
a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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intaglio printing
(intaglio printing, intaglio, gravure)
Princeton's WordNet
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
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intaglio
(intaglio printing, intaglio, gravure)
Princeton's WordNet
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
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gravure
(intaglio printing, intaglio, gravure)
Princeton's WordNet
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
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tuille
(twil)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a hinged plate for the thigh in plate armor.
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electrotype
Webster Dictionary
a facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively
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moire metallique
Webster Dictionary
a crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated
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reenter
Webster Dictionary
to cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing
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tulle
Webster Dictionary
in plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses
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acierage
Webster Dictionary
the process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling
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slide
Webster Dictionary
a plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope
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zincoid
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole
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glyphograph
Webster Dictionary
a plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate
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phonograph
Webster Dictionary
an instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound
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plateful
Webster Dictionary
enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold
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calk
Webster Dictionary
to make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice
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plane
Webster Dictionary
a block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate
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plating
Webster Dictionary
the art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition
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stereotype
Webster Dictionary
a plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing
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polarizer
Webster Dictionary
that which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal
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electro-tint
Webster Dictionary
a style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing
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daguerreotype
Webster Dictionary
an early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury
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tarsus
Webster Dictionary
a plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate
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siderography
Webster Dictionary
the art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy
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tin
(tin)
Princeton's WordNet
plate with tin
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plate
(ɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the plate,
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collotype
(ˈkɒl əˌtaɪp)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the plate used for this.
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photogravure
(ˌfoʊ tə grəˈvyʊər, -ˈgreɪ vyər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the plate itself.
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pl.
(ˈpiˌdʒeɪz)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
plate.
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