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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lithograph
noun
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▪ Against these historical profanities, the descendants of those colourfully dressed figures in Roberts' lithographs stood no hope.
▪ Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa, the cosy streets of Roberts' lithographs are all but gone.
▪ Limited edition lithographs, signed and numbered, sell for a more affordable $ 50.
▪ Most lithographs were published in editions of fifty and the etchings in editions of twenty-five.
▪ They were finally designated livret and exhibited with the lithographs.
▪ This splendid lithograph by Bourne gives one a vivid idea of the impact of the railway on urban landscapes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lithograph

lithograph \lith"o*graph\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. lithographed; p. pr. & vb. n. lithographing.] [litho- + -graph: cf. F. lithographier.] To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See lithography.

lithograph

lithograph \lith"o*graph\, n. A print made by lithography.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lithograph

1828, back-formation from lithography. As a verb, from 1825. Related: Lithographed; lithographer; lithographic.

Wiktionary
lithograph

n. A printed image produced by lithography; an image produced by etching the image onto a flat surface, then copying the etched surface by applying ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it. vb. To create a copy of an image through lithography.

WordNet
lithograph
  1. n. a print produced by lithography

  2. duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern [syn: lithograph machine]

  3. v. make by lithography

Usage examples of "lithograph".

The book is abundantly illustrated, having twelve excellent plates in lithograph and photogravure, and two hundred and seventy-eight in the tone process and photoengraving.

What seems to undergird this body of work is a conviction that our episodes of upheaval have a special graphic character and can be represented in painting, lithograph, and woodcut.

Hingray told us that our proclamations and our decrees had been lithographed and distributed by hand in thousands.

This looked, thanks to a fortuitous file-swap with a member in Sweden, like a lithographed tin lunch box, Rez and Lo peering stunned and fuzzy-eyed from its flat, rectangular lid.

There were ten of the beautiful bonds of the Great Lakes and Canadian Southern Railroad Company with their miniature locomotives and fields of wheat, and ten equally lovely bits of engraving belonging to the long-since defunct Bluff Creek and Iowa Central, ten more superb lithographs issued by the Mohawk and Housatonic in 1867 and paid off in 1882, and a variety of gorgeous chromos of Indians and buffaloes, and of factories and steamships spouting clouds of soft-coal smoke.

Dugdale chose eight of these to be made up in lithograph to accompany his first edition of the book, which appeared in 1867, and consisted of 110 pages of text, to which he appended a note concerning the abruptness of the ending of the book (Ashbee comments that the final note was written by Sellon himself).

The engraved bookplate showed a lithograph of a seated cat staring at a fish in a bowl.

The credenzas and desk space were crowded with photos of his family — his wife and the two boys were all dark — and an array of sports mementos: signed basketballs, lithographs of athletic stars, a framed ticket from the Trappers' lone playoff appearance, nearly twenty years ago now.

The credenzas and desk space were crowded with photos of his family his wife and the two boys were all dark and an array of sports mementos: signed basketballs, lithographs of athletic stars, a framed ticket from the Trappers' lone playoff appearance, nearly twenty years ago now.

It was a Mark 9 Black Cab Kerb Crawler, with lithographed pressed steel body panels, chrome-trimmed running boards and brass radiator grille.

After your summer vacation I want you to leave the back room and come forward into the etchings and lithographs.

He thought of all the lovely prints he had possessed at one time or another, the lithographs and etchings he had sent to Theo and his parents.

People throughout the country bought lithographs from their general stores and hung them in their living and dining rooms.

She looked at her stack of Lo/Rez albums beside the lithographed lunch box, her virtual Venice beside that.

The Prince pointed to where the Japanese tea-doll slumped disconsolately against the foot of the massive four-poster, surrounded by a tumbled sea of lithographed tin and painted lead.