inking
present participle ofink
ink
verb[T]
uk/ɪŋk/us/ɪŋk/inkverb[T](PUT INK ON)
publishing,artspecialized
to put ink on something:
Theprintingplateshave to be inked before they willprinton thepaper.
Painting, drawing & printing
- airbrush
- brushstroke
- brushwork
- chiaroscuro
- coloursomethingin
- describe
- engraving
- etching
- face painting
- foreshorten
- foreshortened
- illustrate
- painting by numbersidiom
- pentimento
- picturize
- re-ink
- redraw
- shade
- sketch
- stroke
inkverb[T](DECORATE SKIN)
informal
totattoosomeone(=decoratetheirskinwithpatternsusingneedlesand ink):
Here are someimportantpointstonotebefore you get inked.
The skin, & skin colour
- anti-wrinkle
- ashy
- beauty spot
- bloodless
- blush
- colouring
- crevice
- crimson
- cutaneous
- cutis
- florid
- flush
- freckle
- mole
- sunbath
- sunbathing
- sunburned
- suntan
- suntanned
- tanned
Examplesofinking
inking
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The illustrations are crisply reproduced, with exact management ofinkingso that none prints too dark or too light, too broken up or too smudged.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These workmen are drawing, cutting,inking, all to produce dark lines in a hurried and penumbral modernity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In one study of 220 cases, specimen handling andinkingwas completely controlled by the surgeon and compression was only permitted in an anterior-posterior direction.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I had not in fact thought of it in terms of a funeral so much as theinkingin of a full stop at the end of a chapter.
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This is followed by the use of a scraper to remove any burs, since they would be an impediment during the subsequentinkingprocess.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Certain latex rubber compounds can be laser engraved; for example these can be used to fabricateinking-stamps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When up theinkingroll went to far and put ink on the touching piston.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also defined the drawing style with his distinctiveinkingquality that the series was famous for.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I started out doing a little touch-up work, a little background work, a littleinking, redraw this, fix this head, do something with this panel.
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- forgive-and-forget
- forgive me
- forgive-me
- forgiveness
- forgiving
- forgo
- for good
- for-good
- for (good) luck
- for-good-luck
- for good measure
- for-good-measure
- for-goodness-sake
- for goodness’ sake
- forgotten past
- for hours, days, etc. on end
- for-hours-days-etc-on-end
- for illustrative purposes
- for informational purpose
- for instance
- for-instance
- for instructional purposes
- forint
- for it
- for-it