Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 32

Engraved (imp.) of Engrave.

Engraved (p. p.) of Engrave.

Engraven () of Engrave.

Engraving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrave.

Engrave (v. t.) 雕刻，鐫刻；牢記，銘記 To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]

Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. -- Spenser.

Engrave (v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. -- Ex. xxviii. 11.

Engrave (v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.

Engrave (v. t.) To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.

Engrave principles in men's minds. -- Locke.

Engrave (v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." -- Spenser.

Engrave (v.) Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" [syn: scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe].

Engrave (v.) Impress or affect deeply; "The event engraved itself into her memory."

Engrave (v.) Carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter" [syn: engrave, etch].

Engrave (v.) Carve or cut a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name" [syn: engrave, etch].

Engrave (v.) [ T ] 在（金屬、石頭等）上雕刻（字、圖案等） To cut words, pictures, or patterns into the surface of metal, stone, etc.

// The jeweller skilfully engraved the initials on the ring.

// The bracelet was engraved with his name and date of birth.

Idiom: Be engraved on sb's memory/ mind

Be engraved on sb's memory/ mind 銘刻在記憶裡／腦海中 To be very difficult to forget.

// That last conversation we had is engraved on my memory forever.

Engraved (a.) Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

Engraved (a.) (Zool.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.

Engraved (a.) Cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design"; "engraved invitations" [syn: engraved, etched, graven, incised, inscribed].

Engravement (n.) Engraving.

Engravement (n.) Engraved work. [R.] -- Barrow.

Engraver (n.) One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

Engraver (n.) A skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching.

Engraver (n.) A printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate.

Engraver, () Heb. harash (Ex. 35:35; 38:23) means properly an artificer in wood, stone, or metal. The chief business of the engraver was cutting names or devices on rings and seals and signets (Ex. 28:11, 21, 36; Gen. 38:18).

Engravery (n.) The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Engraving (n.) 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.

Engraving (n.) That which is engraved; an engraved plate.

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

Note: Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs.

Engraving (n.) A print made from an engraving.

Engraving (n.) A block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved

Engraving (n.) Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them [syn: engraving, etching].

Engregge (v. t.) To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Engrieve (v. t.) To grieve. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Engrossed (imp. & p. p.) of Engross.

Engrossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engross.

Engross (v. t.) 用大字體書寫，獨占，使全神貫注 To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.]

Waves . . . engrossed with mud. -- Spenser.

Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. -- Shak.

Engross (v. t.) To amass. [Obs.]

To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. -- Shak.

Engross (v. t.) To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.

Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. -- Hawthorne.

Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. -- De Quincey.

Engross (v. t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.

Engross (v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.

Engrossed bill (Legislation), One which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage.

Engrossing hand (Penmanship), A fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc.

Syn: To absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy; forestall; monopolize. See Absorb.

Engrossed (a.) 全神貫注的，專心致志的 Giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: {captive}, {absorbed}, {engrossed}, {enwrapped}, {intent}, {wrapped}].

Engrossed (a.) Written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document.

Engrosser (n.) One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

Engrosser (n.) One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. -- Locke.

Engrossment (n.) 正式繕寫的文件 The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

Engrossments of power and favor. -- Swift.

Engrossment (n.) That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.

Enguard (v. t.) To surround as with a guard. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Engulfed (imp. & p. p.) of Engulf.

Engulfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engulf.

Engulf (v. t.) 吞沒；捲入 To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

It quite engulfs all human thought. -- Young.

Syn: See {Absorb}.

Engulf (v.) Devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: {steep}, {immerse}, {engulf}, {plunge}, {engross}, {absorb}, {soak up}].

Engulf (v.) Flow over or cover completely; "The bright light engulfed him completely."

Engulf (v.) [With object] (Of a natural force) Sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely.

‘The cafe was engulfed in flames.’

[Figurative] ‘Europe might be engulfed by war.’

Engulf (v.) [With object] Eat or swallow (something) whole.

‘The toad can engulf nestling birds.’

Engulf (v.) [With object] Powerfully affect (someone); overwhelm.

‘A feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him.’

Engulfment (n.) A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [R.]

Engyn () Variant of Engine.

Enhalo (v. t.) To surround with a halo.

Enhance (v. i.) To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Enhanced (imp. & p. p.) of Enhance.

Enhancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enhance.

Enhance (v. t.) 提高，增加（價值，品質，吸引力等） To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.

Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. -- Spenser.

Enhance (v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.

The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. -- Southey.

Enhance (v.) Increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" [syn: enhance, heighten, raise].

Enhance (v.) Make better or more attractive; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat."

Enhancement (n.) 提高，增強 The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

Enhancement (n.) An improvement that makes something more agreeable [syn: enhancement, sweetening].

Enhancement (n.) Common marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature ? or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a feature.

Enhancement

Enhanced, ()

A change intended to make a product better in some way, e.g. new functions, faster, or occasionally more compatible with other systems. Enhancements to hardware components, especially integrated circuits often mean they are smaller and less demanding of resources. Sadly, this is almost never true of software enhancements.

Examples include Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, Enhanced Capabilities Port, Enhanced Directory Service, Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Enhanced IDE, Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics, enhanced parallel port, Enhanced Small Disk Interface, List Enhanced, Privacy Enhanced Mail.

Enhancement

Enhanced, ()

Marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature, or perhaps save some effort by declaring "{That's not a bug, that's a feature!".

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Enhancer (n.) 增強劑 One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

Enhancer (n.) Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" [syn: foil, enhancer].

Enhancive (a.) 加強的；增強的 Intensifying by augmentation and enhancement [syn: augmentative, enhancive].

Enhancive (a.) Serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body; "cosmetic surgery"; "enhansive makeup" [syn: cosmetic, enhancive].

Enharbor (v. t.) To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit. -- W. Browne.

Enharden (v. t.) To harden; to embolden. [Obs.] -- Howell. Enharmonic

Enharmonic (a.) Alt. of Enharmonical.

Enharmonical (a.) (Anc. Mus.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.

Enharmonical (a.) (Mus.) Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A[flat] for G[sharp].

Enharmonical (a.) (Mus.) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.

Enharmonically (adv.) In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

Enhearten (v. t.) 鼓勵；使振奮 To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden.

The enemy exults and is enheartened. -- I. Taylor.

Enhedge (v. t.) To surround as with a hedge. [R.] -- Vicars.

Enhort (v. t.) To encourage. [Obs.] "To enhort the people." -- Chaucer.

Enhunger (v. t.) To make hungry.

Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. -- J. Martineau.

Enhydros (n.) (Min.) A variety of chalcedony containing water.

Enhydrous (a.) Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.

Enigmas (n. pl. ) of Enigma.

Enigma (n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

A custom was among the ancients of proposing an enigma at festivals. -- Pope.

Enigma (n.) An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma. Enigmatic

Enigma (n.) Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets" [syn: mystery, enigma, secret, closed book].

Enigma (n.) A difficult problem [syn: riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser].

Enigma, () The electro-mechanical cipher engine used by the Germans in World War II to encrypt and decrypt field orders. Many of their messages were deciphered at Bletchley Park, by Alan Turing and others.