单词 | key plate |
释义 | key platen. 1. A flat piece of metal surrounding or covering a keyhole; a keyhole escutcheon. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > plate around keyhole key platec1520 shield1649 escutcheon1663 scutcheon1706 c1520 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 206 Item pro ij rygges, roses, & key plattes, 16d. 1798 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. II. at Richtscheibe The Notches or Holes into the Key-Plate of German Locks. 1848 R. Brandon & J. A. Brandon Parish Churches 39 The south door has been a beautiful piece of wood work exquisitely carved, with a very good closing ring and key plate. 1892 Rep. U.S. National Mus. 441 The key plates are brass bats, the bodies of which turn aside disclosing the keyholes. 1903 T. A. Strange Hist. Guide French Interiors 326 The key plate is formed as a vase-shaped burning lamp. 1969 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. (rev. ed.) 317 (caption) The simplest type of escutcheon, pivoted to cover the key-plate. 2005 M. Gross 740 Park i. 44 Gold-plated doorknobs and key plates. 2. Printing. A plate on to which a key drawing (key drawing n. 1) is transferred. Cf. keystone n.1 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [noun] > guide for colour registration key plate1856 key block1867 key drawing1868 1856 Repertory Patent Inventions 28 346 I use this plate as the key plate. 1893 Inland Printer Sept. 467/1 It passes around and under another large cylinder on which the cylinder carrying the key-plates and text of the illustrations in black are impressed, thereby perfecting the colored designs. 1909 R. E. Le Blond Let. in H. G. Clarke Baxter Colour Prints (1919) 103 These prints were first engraved on a steel plate, a key-plate, or, as I should call, a master-plate. 1970 Jrnl. Printing Hist. Soc. 6 73 A key plate of the design was printed in black or brown, usually from an..engraved steel or copper plate. 2008 R. Benson Printed Picture iii. 62 The black key plate in this early chromolithograph, made in about 1846, was printed by letterpress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1520 |
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