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Large advertising painted on the walls of buildings.
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(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
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(telecommunications) A location with poor radio signal reception, e.g. for mobile phones.
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The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal.
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(uncountable) The technique of making a paper copy of a brass-plate engraving by placing a sheet of paper over the plate and rubbing with a crayon.
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A person who draws using chalk
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To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
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To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
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The tool used to make a chalk line.
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A music hall act in which a performer makes chalk caricatures whilst reciting a monologue
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To write or draw on a chalkboard.
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(art) A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color, or a woodcut print made by this technique.
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Synonym of doomsday device
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The manufacture of shaped components by electrodeposition on a pattern or mandrel.
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(art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
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A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
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(printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
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(transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.
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(uncountable, art) A method of making an image by placing a piece of paper against an object and then rubbing over it, usually with a pencil or charcoal.
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A transparent sheet (usually of glass or plastic) placed over a monitor to reduce glare.
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(transitive) To apply graphite to.
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(etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
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A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
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Any of several machines or devices in which a part impacts on another, or on a material.
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(transitive) To apply a tattoo to (someone).
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A person's collection of tattoos.
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(photography) The detachable cap that protects the camera lens when the camera is not in use.
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(historical) An adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
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A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
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A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
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A person who does origami.
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(transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.
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Material that has been panned.
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(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
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(art) artwork made with a pen
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(electronics) Synonym of resettable fuse
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(transitive) To decorate with posters.
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(transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
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The application of paint to a surface by transferring it from a rag applied in a rolling motion; the decorative finish so produced
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The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
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The art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side, either to produce decorative work or to level up part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.
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A metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side.
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(art) A technique in which drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white china clay that is coated with black India ink.
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(in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
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A decoration so produced.
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Alternative form of stencil work [The art of decorating using a stencil.]
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An etching technique used to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
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(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
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a cast made by pouring prill sulfur into a depression; used forensically to take casts of prints in snow
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(transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
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(slang) To apply a tattoo.
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An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
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A small hand-held device used for applying tattoos.
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A person receiving a tattoo.
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An engraver's implement for producing a tint by parallel lines.
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The art of making relief or intaglio designs, especially by chasing, carving or embossing in metal
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An artist’s tool used to smudge and blend a drawing made from charcoal, pencil, or pastel, consisting of a tightly-wound stick of soft, fibrous paper, sanded to a point at one end like a pencil.
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A black liquid used in lithography for drawing and painting and in etching and the silk-screen process as a resist.
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(computing, countable, uncountable) An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.
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To draw chalk symbols in public places (such as the side of a building or a sidewalk) to show users of computers with Wi-Fi capability where a wireless network may be accessed.
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A variation of the woodcut method executed with a different tool (burin) and different wood (end grain), allowing for more detailed images.
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(uncountable) A method of printmaking from such a block.
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