wood block
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- noun
- /wʊd blɑk/
:
bloque de madera
- In traditional art, a wood block is often used to produce multiple prints of the same design.
- a wood block print
- use wood blocks
And so it's not the same amount of ink transferred from the wood block to the paper.
- And so it's not the same amount of ink transferred from the wood block to the paper.
Examples
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Primitive movable type, usually in the form of wood blocks, existed before Gutenberg.
Academic text (2005) -
What that means is they are carving a wood block print that was already carved once back in the old days.
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Girls arrived, put their food on the table, and painted a wood block.
Blog text (24) -
And so it's not the same amount of ink transferred from the wood block to the paper.
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And that design is then carved into wood blocks and printed into a print.
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Two exquisite wood-block prints are hanging over the bed.
Fiction book (1992) -
It is actually difficult to find wood blocks in toy stores in today's high-tech world.
Academic text (2007) -
The allure of wood blocks goes back for centuries, and all children (and most adults!) spontaneously begin to play with them as soon as they see them.
Academic text (2007) -
After the initial dyeing, subsequent colors are applied by hand using felt-padded wood blocks, resulting in a slight overlapping and misalignment of color areas.
Academic text (1994) -
The artist used a carved wood block to create an intricate pattern on the fabric.
Synonyms
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6.5
A picture printed from a carved block of wood or the carved block itself
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4.0
A carved block of wood used to print pictures onto paper or cloth
A piece of wood or metal cut to print pictures made mostly of lines
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'wood' and 'block' will readily infer it denotes a block made of wood. However, the specific specialised sense of a carved printing block (used to print images or patterns) is narrower and usage-specific, so that functional meaning is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Wood block comes from a simple, old printing tool: an artist cut a design into a piece of wood called a block, put ink on it and pressed it onto paper. That's why 'wood block' means 'a block of wood with a design cut into it that is used to print images'.