AQUATINTA

  

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AQUATINTA

Definition: AQUATINTA

AQUATINTA

Noun

1. A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"AQUATINTA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Aquatint.


Synonyms within Context: AQUATINTA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Engraving

Noun: engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AQUATINTA

Non-English Usage: "AQUATINTA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (aquatint).

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Anagrams: AQUATINTA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-n-q-t-t-u"

-1 letter: aquatint.

-3 letters: attain, quaint, quanta, quinta.

-4 letters: qanat, quant, quint, taint, taunt, titan.

-5 letters: anta, anti, aqua, aunt, quai, quin, quit, tain, taut, tint, tuna, unai, unit.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-n-q-t-t-u"
 

+5 letters: absquatulating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AQUATINTA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 51 55 41 54 49 4E 54 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --.-    ..-    .-    -    ..    -.    -    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010001 01010101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#81 &#85 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0051 0055 0041 0054 0049 004E 0054 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

355155355443485435

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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