engraved

«engraved» in Mova's school dictionary: Cut or carved into a hard surface such as metal, stone… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (engrave, engraves, engraved, engraving); adjective (engraved)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cut or carved into a hard surface such as metal, stone, glass or wood: «His name was engraved on the cup.» tree →

2) (figurative) Fixed firmly in your memory: «The day is engraved on my mind.» tree →

3) Printed from a cut metal plate (an engraving). tree →

sense in the lessons

Seen on trophies, rings, medals, gravestones and plaques. In history lessons, old pictures in books were often engravings. In stories something «engraved in his memory» will never be forgotten.

examples

• The winner's name was engraved on the trophy. tree →
• Her watch had a message engraved on the back. tree →
• The date was engraved on the stone. tree →
• The silver cup was engraved with the school badge. tree →
• That sunny day is engraved in my memory. tree →
• The old map was engraved on copper. tree →
• Somewhere about him he has hidden a stone, on which are engraved strange signs. tree →

note

Past form of «engrave» (regular). Noun: an engraving (a picture), an engraver (a person). Different from «printed» or «painted»: engraving cuts into the surface.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «engraved» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.