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| lithography |
the art or process of printing using a smooth stone or metal plate treated so that only the areas meant to print will absorb and transfer ink. |
| marker |
a felt-tipped or other pen that produces thick lines of ink, used for marking and writing. [1/5 definitions] |
| medium |
a particular material, such as oil paint, ink, or acrylic paint, chosen to be used in a work by an artist. [1/11 definitions] |
| pad1 |
an absorbent cushion used for holding ink for rubber stamps. [1/12 definitions] |
| pen1 |
any of various instruments used for writing or drawing in ink. [1/4 definitions] |
| permanent marker |
a pen or marker containing ink that may adhere to all surfaces, be water-resistant, contain durable dyes or pigments, or possess some combination of these attributes. |
| photolithography |
a technique or process of offset printing in which an image is photographically transferred onto a metal or paper sheet that is then developed and specially treated to resist ink on all but the transferred image. |
| pigment |
a powdered substance that can be suspended in oil, water, or the like to make a coloring material such as paint or ink. [1/4 definitions] |
| pinpoint |
anything that is exceptionally small, such as a spot of ink or a point on a map. [1/3 definitions] |
| print |
to reproduce (text or pictures) by transferring ink to a surface by means of mechanical pressure. [1/13 definitions] |
| quill |
such a feather, as of a goose, used as a writing implement by dipping the hard, hollow portion into ink. [1/6 definitions] |
| reink |
combined form of ink. |
| Rorschach test |
a psychological test in which a profile of the patient is formed on the basis of the patient's subjective interpretation of standardized designs that resemble ink blots. |
| scratchboard |
a piece of cardboard that is covered with hard white clay or chalk and coated with ink, upon which line drawings can be made by scratching the ink to reveal the glossy white surface. |
| sepia |
a brownish pigment usu. made from secretions of certain cuttlefish, or of the ink made from such a pigment. [2 definitions] |
| silkscreen |
a method of printmaking employing a framed screen of silk or other fine fabric, on which a stencil design of impermeable film is impressed, and through which ink is pressed, through the pores not blocked by the design, onto a flat printing surface; serigraphy. [1/4 definitions] |
| stencil |
a sheet of some material impervious to paint, inks, or the like out of which letters or a pattern has been cut, so that paint, ink, or the like can pass through to form a design on the underlying surface. [1/4 definitions] |
| wash drawing |
a monochrome drawing done in washes of transparent watercolor or India ink. |
| well2 |
a container for holding a particular liquid such as ink. [1/7 definitions] |
| whiting2 |
pure white chalk, ground and washed, used to make whitewash, ink, putty, and the like. |
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