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emboss - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To mold or carve in relief.
- transitive verb To decorate with or as if with a raised design.
- transitive verb To adorn; decorate.
- transitive verb To cover with many protuberances; stud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form bosses on; fashion relief or raised work upon; ornament with bosses or raised work; cover or stud with protuberances, as a shield.
- To represent in relief or raised work; specifically, in embroidery, to raise in relief by inserting padding under the stitches. See
embossing . - noun A boss; a protuberance.
- To inclose as in a box; incase; sheathe.
- To conceal in or as in a wood or thicket.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
- transitive verb To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
- intransitive verb obsolete To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
- transitive verb obsolete To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
- transitive verb To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
- transitive verb obsolete To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
mark ordecorate with a raiseddesign orsymbol . - verb obsolete Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a
wood orforest . - verb obsolete To
drive (an animal) toextremity ; toexhaust , to make foam at the mouth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb raise in a relief
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English embosen, from Old French embocer : en-, in; see en– + boce, knob.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From em- + boss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Perhaps from em- + Old French bos, bois ("wood"). Compare imbosk.
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Examples
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Holographic titles emboss their shiny covers of orchid or teal, sometimes cobalt.
Assumption 2010
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He would print it from his computer and then use a US silver dollar to 'emboss' a seal on it for the notary.
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- The options "emboss" and "embossmore" transform your images to a relief with two nuances.
KDE-Apps.org Content 2009
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- The options "emboss" and "embossmore" transform your images to a relief with two nuances.
KDE-Look.org Content 2009
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- The options "emboss" and "embossmore" transform your images to a relief with two nuances.
KDE-Apps.org Content 2009
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* You can make your images look like early photographs with the option "Sepia effect" and like a relief with "emboss" and "embossmore".
KDE-Apps.org Content 2009
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- The options "emboss" and "embossmore" transform your images to a relief with two nuances.
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* You can make your images look like early photographs with the option "Sepia effect" and like a relief with "emboss" and "embossmore".
KDE-Look.org Content 2009
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* You can make your images look like early photographs with the option "Sepia effect" and like a relief with "emboss" and "embossmore".
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- The options "emboss" and "embossmore" transform your images to a relief with two nuances.
KDE-Apps.org Content 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word emboss
"To form bosses on; fashion relief or raised work upon; ornament with bosses or raised work; cover or stud with protuberances, as a shield."
--CD&C
January 15, 2013
bilby commented on the word emboss
Psst ruzuzu, boss is a moo word.
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word emboss
and which part of the moo is it? the 'jefe' or the 'chef'"(ee)"? knobhillish? just incase sheathesomely
January 16, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word emboss
You're not the boss of me. :-p
Actually, it's funny--I was looking at this word because of my current obsession with marbles (which already caused me to add marble to my cattle list), but I was also fascinated by those weird old definitions about seeking shelter in the woods and hunted animals foaming at the mouth. Then, last night, I went to a lecture by Temple Grandin about improving animal welfare (especially, ironically, during the steps leading up to slaughter). She says fear is bad--I think it's mostly that it's bad for the meat and dangerous for the workers.
Anyway... thank you, bilby.
January 16, 2013