lithograph
/ˈlɪθəɡrɑːf/noun
उच्चारण लिथग्राफ़
शिला-मुद्रित चित्र, लिथोग्राफ़
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noun
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[C]
a picture printed by lithography, a process in which the image is drawn on a flat stone or metal plate with a greasy substance so that only those parts take the ink
शिला-मुद्रित चित्र, लिथोग्राफ़
- The museum has a collection of nineteenth-century lithographs of Calcutta.
- a signed lithograph by a famous painter
Synonyms print
verb
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[T] ~ sth
to print something by lithography
शिला-मुद्रण करना, लिथोग्राफ़ से छापना
- The maps were lithographed in Dehradun.
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lithography nounlithographic adjective
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⌂Word origin and word building
From Greek lithos, meaning 'stone', and graphein, meaning 'to write', because the image was first drawn on stone.
यह Greek शब्द lithos ('पत्थर') और graphein ('लिखना') से बना है, क्योंकि शुरू में चित्र पत्थर पर बनाया जाता था।