gravure

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsintaglio printingintaglio

   Broaderprinting

   Narrowerphotogravure
2. 2.

   a printing plate used in the process of gravure

   Broaderengraving
3. 3.

   an intaglio print produced by gravure

   Synonymsphotogravureheliogravure

   Broaderprint
4. 4.

   the act of intaglio printing

   Broaderprinting

   Narrowerphotogravure

Other forms of gravure

plural

gravures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gravure

What does gravure mean?

gravure means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gravure?

gravure has 2 syllables: gra-vure. The stress falls on "gra".

What is another word for gravure?

Close synonyms include intaglio printing, intaglio, photogravure, heliogravure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gravure a common word?

gravure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.