单词 | copperplate |
释义 | copperplaten. 1. gen. (Better written as two words.) A plate of copper; also collective. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish spice-plate1391 pie plate1573 maple dish1637 cheese platea1665 supper dish1664 copperplate1665 reaming dish1712 paper plate1723 pickle leaf1762 pap-boat1782 supper1787 vegetable dish1799 well-dish1814 ice plate1820 pudding plate1838 tea plate1862 picnic plate1885 strawberry dish1941 1665 S. Pepys Diary 16 Nov. (1972) VI. 300 Silk in bales, and boxes of Copper-plate. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) xii. §6. 246 Then take a Copper-plate, about the size of an ordinary Trencher-plate. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 17 The letters are of gold, and set in a copper plate. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 379 They are composed of thin lacquered copper-plates. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 122 Copper-plates, the plates of amalgamated copper over which the auriferous ore is allowed to flow..and upon which the gold is caught as amalgam. 2. spec. A polished plate of copper on which a design is engraved or etched for printing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > copperplate engraving > material brass plate1663 copper1668 copperplate1668 1668 Excellency of Pen & Pencil 55 Copper plates ready polished do often come from Holland. 1685 W. Petty Will p. vii I have..the copper-plates for the maps of Ireland. 1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs Pref. He not only forwarded the Impression, but directed and order'd the Copperplate. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 770 The copperplate is prepared, and the ground laid upon it in the same manner as for etching. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. x. 48 Impressions from the same block, or the same copper-plate. 3. A print or impression from such a plate. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > copperplate engraving > an engraving brass-leaf1654 copperplate1663 brasscuta1680 copper-cut1688 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders sig. g3v Untill a large worke (with Copper Plates) shall have had time to be put forth. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 174 Copper-plates of their paintings..published by various authors. 1840 W. M. Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 297 A couple of numbers, containing about a score of copperplates. 4. collective. Copperplate engraving or printing. Used of a style of careful handwriting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > copperplate engraving chalcography1661 copperplate1817 1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 82 What ideas copper-plate supplies are yet more inadequate. 1824 M. Wilmot Let. 1 Jan. (1935) 204 They will all write as well at 13 or 14 as if they wrote copper plate now. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 161 The Th was there as legible as copper-plate. 1911 R. Brooke Let. July (1968) 312 I have stooped to an even more round-hand copper-plate than ever. 1966 G. Heyer Black Sheep ix. 132 She had then devoted the better part of the afternoon to the composition of a formal invitation, written in her beautiful copper-plate. 5. attributive. (Better as one word.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > copperplate copperplate1750 society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > copperplate copperplate1750 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [adjective] > copperplate engraving copperplate1750 chalcographical18.. chalcographic1815 1750 J. Steuart Let.-bk. (1915) 465 A coper plate coppie book for asisting my boys in ther writing. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia I. 525 The earliest specimens of copper-plate printing. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Copper~plate Maker, a workman who shapes, smooths, and prepares metal plates for engraving. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Copper-plate Press, a roller press for striking off impressions on paper from a metal plate. 1878 R. H. Thurston Hist. Steam-engine 33 A copperplate engraving. 1954 N. D. Young Handwriting in Eng. & Wales i. 9 England,..producing in time the copper-plate writing that was imitated in all the counting-houses of Europe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). copperplatev. transitive. To engrave on and print from a copperplate. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > copperplate copperplate1822 1822 W. Scott Let. 15 Mar. (1934) VII. 97 It will be time for him to be copperplated as Joseph Gillon used to call it when he is Major General. 1881 J. Benedict Weber 84 The notes flowed to his pen with the marks of all the shading of expression, as if copper-plated on the paper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1663v.1822 |
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