engraved

Everyday

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 →

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.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says Abraham engraved and combined the letters and so understood how the world was made. Tradition honors him as the first to know creation's secret. In the primary 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

• After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and received them into his power (hands). (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
• "When Abraham our father arose, he looked nnd saw and investigated and observed and engraved and hewed and combin- ed and formed and calculated, and his creation was successful. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) 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.