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grabar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • engrave verb To cut letters, patterns, or images into a hard surface, typically metal, stone, or wood.
  • etch verb To cut a design or pattern into a hard surface using acid, a needle, or another sharp tool.
  • grave noun A hole dug in the ground to bury a dead body.
  • record noun A written or stored account of information, kept for future reference.
  • save verb To rescue someone or something from harm or danger.
  • scribe noun A person employed to write or copy documents by hand, especially historically.
  • tape verb To fasten, seal, or attach something using adhesive tape.

Senses

grabar is used for these senses in English:

  • etch To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  • save (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
  • scribe (carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
  • tape To record, originally onto magnetic tape.

etch — full definition

  1. verb To cut a design or pattern into a hard surface using acid, a needle, or another sharp tool.
  2. verb To fix something firmly and permanently in someone's memory.

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