engrave
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ldoce_084_aen·grave /ɪnˈɡreɪv/ verb [transitive] 1 AVDto cut words or designs on metal, wood, glass etc 〔在金属、木头、玻璃等上〕雕刻〔文字或图案〕engrave something on something Their names are engraved on a stone tablet. 他们的名字刻在石匾上。engrave something with something a pendant engraved with a simple design 刻有简单图案的吊坠2. be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart literaryREMEMBER to be impossible to forget 铭刻在记忆里/脑海中/心中 —engraver noun [countable]→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
engrave• The heavy pressure of the pen made each line appear engraved.• It's an address engraved in my brain.• Wood engraving is an old process: Many newspaper and magazine illustrations from the previous century were reproduced through the process.• A heavy block of lead backing the engraved logo of a column I wrote regularly, decades ago at another newspaper.• The 50 names are engraved on three granite tablets.• The words could be engraved over the entrance to the Pentagon today.• It had no numbers engraved upon it, only bare lines.• When engraving was developed or etching was developed, engraving sort of, a lot of people lost interest in engraving.engrave something on something• The names of soldiers who were killed are engraved on two marble walls.Origin engrave (1500-1600) grave “to cut” ((11-21 centuries)), from Old English grafanen·grave verbChineseSyllable
cut glass on or to metal, Corpus designs wood, words
engrave
en‧grave /ɪnˈɡreɪv/
verb [transitive]
engrave something on something
Their names are engraved on a stone tablet.
engrave something with something
a pendant engraved with a simple design
2. be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart literary to be impossible to forget
—engraver noun [countable]
en‧grave /ɪnˈɡreɪv/
verb [transitive] Date: 1500-1600
Origin: grave 'to cut' (11-21 centuries), from Old English grafan
1. to cut words or designs on metal, wood, glass etcOrigin: grave 'to cut' (11-21 centuries), from Old English grafan
engrave something on something
engrave something with something
2. be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart literary to be impossible to forget
—engraver noun [countable]
