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retouch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retouch \Re*touch"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + touch: cf. F. retoucher.]
To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
(Photog.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.
Retouch \Re*touch"\, n. (Fine Arts) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The act of retouching. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws. 2 (context transitive English) To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured. 3 (context archaeology English) To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
WordNet
v. give retouches to (hair); "retouch the roots"
alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!" [syn: touch up]
Wikipedia
Retouch is the act of producing scars on a stone flake after the ventral surface has been created. It can be done to the edge of an implement in order to make it into a functional tool, or to reshape a used tool. Retouch can be a strategy to reuse an existing lithic artifact and enable people to transform one tool into another tool. Depending on the form of classification that one uses, it may be argued that retouch can also be conducted on a core-tool, if such a category exists, such as a hand-axe.
Retouch may simply consist of roughly trimming an edge by striking with a hammerstone, or on smaller, finer flake or blade tools it is sometimes carried out by pressure flaking. Other forms of retouch may include burination, which is retouch that is conducted in a parallel orientation to the flake margin. Retouch is often taken as one of the most obvious features distinguishing a tool from a waste by-product of lithic manufacture ( debitage).
The extent of reduction, also known as the retouch intensity, is denoted by a measure of the reduction index. There are many quantitative and qualitative methods used to measure this.
Retouch may refer to:
- Retouch (lithics), the work done to a flint implement after its preliminary roughing-out
- Retouching, editing photographic imagery
Usage examples of "retouch".
Bredow or Reinholm, the Vesco sisters, Klauschen Geitel, or Rama the ballet photographer, who has retouched most of the photographs here displayed, for no neck must show strain and every instep wants to be the highest.
The Eolithic implements, however, were natural flint flakes displaying only retouching along the edges.
But the flaking and retouching on them is far cruder than on the cores and flakes selected by Breuil as examples of pseudoeoliths.
He found on almost all of the Miocene specimens the standard indications of human work: fine retouching, symmetrical chipping, and traces of use.
He noted the presence of retouching on the edges, obviously intended to make a sharp point.
Bulbs of percussion were rare on the Early Miocene flints of Thenay, but most of the flints displayed fine retouching of the edges.
After retouching for a suitable grip, the blunt edge was held in the palm of the hand, and the sharp edge of the implement was moved along the length of the object to be scraped.
But the flaking and retouching on them is far cruder than on the cores and flakes selected by Breuil as examples of pseudo-eoliths.
She broke off one flake, but it needed retouching, so she put her hammerstone down and reached for a stone retoucher.
You will like the taste of it: retouching your life-history, overlaying a sentimental note over simple events, and finally - inventing them from scratch.
There was no knowing what mischief Burton might have been up to with his retouching tools before his untimely demise.
Little or no retouching was necessary in the case of the stupendous flights of steps that were found leading up to the door of this prehistoric royal residence, and which are the first of the many sights the visitor of to-day may see.
Thus we shall see him continually retouching the Rule of his institute, unceasingly revising it down to the last moment, according as the growth of the Order and experience of the human heart suggested to him modifications of it.
Second Life of Celano, we see that the latter has often borrowed verbatim from Brother Leo, but generally he has considerably abridged the passages, adding reflections here and there, especially retouching the style to make it more elegant.
Pummice, with his myrmidons, in aprons and paper caps, retouching the gilding.