lithograph
pronunciation
How to pronounce lithograph in British English:
UK [ˈlɪθəgrɑ:f]
How to pronounce lithograph in American English:
US [ˈlɪθəgræf]
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- Noun:
- a print produced by lithography
- duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern
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- Verb:
- make by lithography
Word Origin
- lithograph
- lithograph: [19] Greek líthos meant ‘stone’. It has contributed a small cluster of words to English, including lithium [19] (a metal so named from its mineral origin), lithops [20] (the name of a small pebble-like plant, coined in the 1920s, which means literally ‘stoneface’ in Greek), lithosphere [19] (the solid outer layer of the Earth), lithotomy [18] (the surgical removal of stones from the bladder), megalith [19], monolith [19], and the various terms for subdivisions of the Stone Age, such as Neolithic [19] and Paleolithic [19]. Lithography itself, which denotes a method of printing from a flat surface, means etymologically ‘stone-writing’, reflecting the fact that the original printing surfaces in this process were of stone (they are now usually metal).
- lithograph (n.)
- 1828, back-formation from lithography. As a verb, from 1825. Related: Lithographed; lithographer; lithographic.
Example
- 1. A lithograph produced by photographically produced plates .
- 2. A signed lithograph by picasso .
- 3. Lithograph was introduced from china to europe .
- 4. A lithograph showing barracks where now a branch of the moscow state university is situated ( in one of the buildings ) .
- 5. Cole printed 1000 of the cards on a lithograph stone before having them hand-colored .