Sentence examples for incised surface from inspiring English sources

Rubbings are made by carefully pressing paper onto a carved or incised surface so that the paper conforms to the features to be copied.

Incised bounding surfaces were produced by fluvial downcutting.

Furthermore, the caudal and pelvic fins of N. osculus extended ventrally enough to have incised the sedimentary surface while swimming within a few centimeters of that surface, while minimizing contact of the anal fin with forward movement.

Archie had a face as smooth as a skinned aspen, his lips barely incised on the surface, as though scratched in with a knife.

In intaglio, or gravure, printing, the image to be transferred to paper is etched or incised into the surface of the printing plate or cylinder.

The channel system at a depth of 15 m (Fig. 2) is incised into the surface of this old platform.

More than a thousand of these petroglyphs were deeply incised on the surface -- some of them nearly life sized.

It should be said that images incised on metal surfaces can be hard to see, and you have to move around in front of the plates at the Drawing Center to catch the right fall of light on what is, in essence, a form of drawing as low relief.

At Puerco Pueblo and many other sites within the park, petroglyphs images, symbols, or designs have been scratched, pecked, carved, or incised on rock surfaces, often on a patina known as desert varnish.

Still other texts were incised into the plaster surface.

In The Moon, for instance, it takes a few moments to register the huge, owlish eyes very faintly incised in the shadowy surface of the painting, eyes that stare sightlessly back at you.