Photogravure

Definitions: Photogravure

Photogravure

Noun

1. Printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods.

2. A halftone print produced by gravure.

3. Using photography to produce a plate for printing.

Etymology: Photogravure \Pho`to*grav"ure\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Photogravure

Synonyms: gravure (n), heliogravure (n), rotogravure (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Engraving	Illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Photogravure

English words defined with "photogravure": rotogravure. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Photogravure" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (photogravure).

Domain	Title
Books	A Treatise on Photogravure (reference) Italy; 231 pictures in photogravure, 7 colour plates, introductory essay, historical notes (reference) Manual of Photogravure a Comprehensive Working Guide to the Fox Talbot Klic Dustgrain Method (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A Toltec princess / P. Fritel, pinx. ; photogravure, Gebbie & Husson Co., Ltd.Credit: Library of Congress.		Brazilian forest. Gathering nuts by strategy / H.N. Cady, pinx. ; photogravure, Gebbie & Husson Co., Ltd.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Photogravure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Photogravure" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	83.33%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "photogravure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الحفر الضوئي. (various references)

Danish		heliogravure (heliogravure), fotogravure (heliogravure). (various references)

Dutch		lichtdruk (negative, photo copy, photo print, tracing), koperlichtdruk (heliogravure). (various references)

Farsi		گراورسازی ازروی شیشه عکاسی . (various references)

French		photogravure (photoengraving). (various references)

German		Photogravüre, Kupferlichtdruck, Heliogravüre (heliogravure). (various references)

Greek		φωτοχαρακτική (photoengraving). (various references)

Hebrew		פוטוגרוורה, דפוס שקע. (various references)

Hungarian		fénynyomat (heliogravure), raszter-mélynyomás, rács-mélynyomás, mélynyomás, heliogravure, fotogravure, fénynyomás, autotípiai klisékészítés, autotípiai klisé. (various references)

Italian		fotoincisione (heliogravure). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW), 写真版 (photographic plate, photostat), グラニュー糖 (granulated sugar, gravure, gravure page), グラビア印刷 (graffiti, graph, graphic, graphic arts, graphic design, graphic designer, graphic display, graphic equalizer, graphical, graphical interface, graphics, graph-matching). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		フォトグラビア , しゃしんばん (photographic plate, photostat), グラビアいんさつ, グラビア (gravure). (various references)

Manx		fotograue. (various references)

Pig Latin		otogravurephay

Portuguese		heliogravura (helioscope), fotogravura (autotype, photolithography, photosensitive), arte de fotografar. (various references)

Romanian		fotogravurã. (various references)

Russian		фотогравюра (photoengraving, photoprint). (various references)

Spanish		fotograbado (photoengraving). (various references)

Swedish		fotogravyr (heliogravure). (various references)

Turkish		fotogravür (heliogravire), fotoğrafla klişe yapma (gravure). (various references)

Ukranian		фотогравюра (photoprint). (various references)

Vietnamese		thuật khắc ảnh trên bản kẽm ảnh bản kẽm (gravure, heliogravure, photoprint). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "photogravure": photogravures. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "photogravure" (pronounced 'Pho`to*grav"ure'): Admeasure, Alure, Antestature, Commeasure, Configure, Confixure, Defailure, Defigure, Deflexure, failure, Fixure, flexure, Fluxure, hachure, incisure, Ligure, Mismeasure, Nervure, Nontenure, Outmeasure, Paradoxure, Plexure, Prefigure, Refigure, Remeasure, soilure, stature, tenure, transfigure, Untreasure, Valure, Velure, Waivure, Wavure, Zonure. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-o-o-p-r-r-t-u-v"
	-3 letters: prorogate.
	-4 letters: operator, prorogue, upgather, uprooter, vapourer.
	-5 letters: agoroth, garrote, gravure, groover, grouper, grouter, outgave, outhear, outrage, outrave, outroar, overapt, overhot, overtop, phorate, portage, praetor, prorate, rapture, regroup, rootage, rougher, tougher, trooper, trouper, urethra, vaporer.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-o-o-p-r-r-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: photogravures.
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