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Meaning of "photoxylography" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY

photoxylography  [ˌfəʊtəʊzaɪˈlɒɡrəfɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY

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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Photoxylography is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of photoxylography in the English dictionary

The definition of photoxylography in the dictionary is the process of using photography in order to produce an image on wood, for the use of a wood engraver.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY


ampelography
ˌæmpəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
biography
baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ
crystallography
ˌkrɪstəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
dactylography
ˌdæktɪˈlɒɡrəfɪ
encephalography
ˌɛnsɛfəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
epistolography
ɪˌpɪstəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
haplography
hæpˈlɒɡrəfɪ
holography
hɒˈlɒɡrəfɪ
metallography
ˌmɛtəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
myelography
ˌmaɪəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
oscillography
ˌɒsɪˈlɒɡrəfɪ
photography
fəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
pneumoencephalography
ˌnjuːməʊɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
pterylography
ˌtɛrɪˈlɒɡrəfɪ
pyelography
ˌpaɪəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
sialography
ˌsaɪəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
stylography
staɪˈlɒɡrəfɪ
symbolography
ˌsɪmbəˈlɒɡrəfɪ
ventriculography
vɛnˌtrɪkjʊˈlɒɡrəfɪ
xylography
zaɪˈlɒɡrəfɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY

phototrophic
phototropic
phototropically
phototropism
phototropy
phototube
phototype
phototypeset
phototypesetter
phototypesetting
phototypic
phototypically
phototypographical
phototypographically
phototypography
phototypy
photovoltaic
photovoltaic effect
photozincograph
photozincography

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY

angiography
autobiography
bibliography
calligraphy
choreography
chromatography
cinematography
computed tomography
cryptography
demography
discography
filmography
historiography
oceanography
orthography
pornography
radiography
tomography
topography
typography
videography

Synonyms and antonyms of photoxylography in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «photoxylography» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY

Find out the translation of photoxylography to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of photoxylography from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «photoxylography» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

photoxylography
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

photoxylography
570 millions of speakers

English

photoxylography
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

photoxylography
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

photoxylography
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

photoxylography
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

photoxylography
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

photoxylography
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

photoxylography
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Photoxylography
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

photoxylography
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

photoxylography
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

photoxylography
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fotoxylography
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

photoxylography
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

photoxylography
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छायाचित्रणास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

photoxylography
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

photoxylography
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

photoxylography
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

photoxylography
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

photoxylography
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Φωτοξυλογραφία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

photoxylography
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

photoxylography
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

photoxylography
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of photoxylography

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY»

The term «photoxylography» is normally little used and occupies the 145.496 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of photoxylography
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about photoxylography

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY»

Discover the use of photoxylography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to photoxylography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Ferromagnetography HeliOtype Mezzograph Photogalvanography Phototypesetting Photoxylography Printing plates, PhOtOpOlymer Woodburytype _Sample books (May Subd Geog) Photometry (May Subd Geog) [QC391] UF Electric light ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2009
2
Library of Congress Subject Headings
... UF Wood-cut Wood-cutting (Engraving) Wood-engravings Woodcut Woodcutting (Engraving) Xylography BT Engraving Prints RT Block-books Block printing NT Erotic wood-engraving Linoleum block-printing Photoxylography _ 15th century ...
‎1989
3
Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Photography of xx Photography, Artistic Photography of trees Photography of youth sa School photography Youth—Portraits x Adolescence—Photography Youth—Photography Photography on wood See Photoxylography Photogravure (T ...
Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division, 1980
4
Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and ...
See also chromolithographs; daguerreotypes; half-tone process; photoxylography; zincography photojournalism, consumption of, 243 photoxylography: impact of. 298069; Leslie's use of, 25-019; process of, 38-39; wartime implementation of, ...
Joshua Brown, 2002
5
Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography: A-I, index
Photoxylography Name given to early photoengraving processes (from the early 1850s on) that used the production of a photographic image on boxwood blocks as a guide for the engraver's knife, instead of using an image drawn by hand on ...
John Hannavy, 2008
6
The Colophon: A Quarterly for Booklovers
He believes that this instance of the use of photoxylography, as the process is technically known, established a precedent for the use of that method in respectable book illustration. Whether or not this is literally correct is hard to say without an ...
‎1940
7
John Burroughs and the Place of Nature
... illustrations of the 1870s.7 The illustrations ofthe Century became known as the New School ofAmerican wood engraving, which featured the technique called photoxylography, or photographing illustrations directly on the engraving block.
James Perrin Warren, 2010
8
Reconsidering Gérôme
The technical term for this mind-bending, counterintuitive process— photoxylography—immediately betrays its hybridity. A member of the controversial “New School” of engraving, Wolf found in photography a “powerful auxiliary.”1 Yet, for some ...
Scott Christopher Allan, Mary G. Morton, 2010
9
Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-century Prints After ...
However, the wood engravings in the monograph were not made in the same way once used by Thomas Bewick: they may have resembled standard wood engravings, but were actually products of photoxylography, a technique that combined ...
Robert Verhoogt, 2007
10
Missionary Encounters
Bamber Gascoigne calls this process “photoxylography” (How to identify prints, 1986, p. 6d). Whether this process was really being used in the workshops producing engravings for the Basel mission in the 18605 I have no means of knowing.
Robert A. Bickers, Rosemary Seton, 2013

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Photoxylography [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/photoxylography>. May 2024 ».
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