Engraving vs. Inscribe: What's the Difference?

The art or technique of one that engraves.

To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.

A design or text engraved on a surface.

To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.

An engraved surface for printing.

To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.

A print made from an engraved plate or block.

To sign one's name or write a brief message in or on (a gift book or photograph, for example).

(art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.

To dedicate to someone.

(printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.

(Mathematics) To draw (one figure) within another figure so that every vertex of the enclosed figure touches the outer figure.

(countable) A print produced from an engraving.

(transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

(music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.

(geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

Present participle of engrave

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

To mark with letters, characters, or words.

That which is engraved; an engraved plate.

To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.

An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

A print made from an engraving

To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

A block or plate that has been engraved

Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

Register formally as a participant or member;

Draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible

Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record

Mark with one's signature;

Convert ordinary language into code;

Address, as a work of literature, in a style less formal than a dedication