matter painting

en-noun

matter painting (countable and uncountable, plural matter paintings)

(art, uncountable) A 1950s art style using impasto paint with everyday materials such as mud or shells added to it.

(art, countable) An individual work produced in this style.


HDRI

HDRI (countable and uncountable, plural HDRIs)

(photography, videography, uncountable) Initialism of high dynamic range imaging.

(photography, videography, countable) Initialism of high dynamic range image.


uruisg

(European folklore, mythology) A brownie in Scottish folklore.


polychromatize

en-verb

polychromatize (third-person singular simple present polychromatizes, present participle polychromatizing, simple past and past participle polychromatized)

polychromatizes (present singular third-person)
polychromatizing (participle present)
polychromatized (participle past)
polychromatized (past)


polychromism

(art) The application of paint to statues


polychromist

(art) A person who applies paint to statues


orthochromatize

orthochromatize (third-person singular simple present orthochromatizes, present participle orthochromatizing, simple past and past participle orthochromatized)

orthochromatizes (present singular third-person)
orthochromatizing (participle present)
orthochromatized (participle past)
orthochromatized (past)


anti-blur

(photography) A feature that prevents blurring of the image.


chort

(glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Burgundy glass.


Vazimba

(folklore) The first inhabitants of Madagascar, generally described as small in stature.


prime lens

(photography) A photographic lens with a constant focal length, as opposed to a zoom lens.


naturalesque

en-adj

naturalesque (comparative more naturalesque, superlative most naturalesque)

more naturalesque (comparative)
most naturalesque (superlative)

Some of the forms are handsome, and their quiet, naturalesque ornamentation shows delicacy and feeling.


vortograph

(historical, photography) A photograph made using a vortoscope


vortoscope

(historical, photography) A device, somewhat like a kaleidoscope, that splits an image into parts


Xography

/ɛkˈsɒɡɹəfi/

In the system at hand, "Xography", the stereoscopic 3-D method, is adapted to a television type display system.

1965, Donald Farness Hanson, John C. Schwebel, Lawrence H. Wallman, Report, page 6:

This remarkable new system of photography and printing is called Xography. It is the product of 14 years of research […]

(photography) A type of photography that produces images that have a three-dimensional quality


troll cat

(folklore) In Scandinavian folklore, a witch's familiar made from hair, wood shavings, etc. that would suck milk from cows and steal cream from people's homes.


rotomation

Both films use an animation technique called rotomation. The technique turns live action footage into animation.

2003, Christine Tomassini, Carol Schwartz, Magill's Cinema Annual, page 1642:

Process shots, particularly for Rocket Raccoon and Groot, were achieved through combinations of CGI, motion capture, and rotomation.

2015, Douglas Brode, Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents, page 375:

(art) Rotoscoping, especially when assisted by motion capture technology.


subantique

(art) Relating to, or exhibiting, an antique classical style imitated by a non-classical culture.


femtophotography

From femto- + photography, from the ~100-femtosecond-long pulses of light used.

(photography) A method of photography using sub-picosecond pulses of light (usually around 10⁻¹³ seconds, or 100 femtoseconds, long) to illuminate the subject of the photograph, allowing the propagation of the light pulse to be viewed directly.


net art

Net Art (alternative)
Net art (alternative)
net.art (alternative)
Internet art (alternative)

Net Art’s political posture was characteristic of the feverish, techno-utopian excitement shared by netheads in general.

2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The rapid obsolescence of hardware and software, the existence of many net artworks within restricted platforms and the fact that artworks often act as assemblages that change or mutate, make net art a challenging case for conservation.

2018, Annet Dekker, “Introduction”, in Collecting and Conserving Net Art, Routledge, →ISBN:

(art) A form of new media art distributed via the Internet.


finish fetish

(art) A style of minimalist pop art with a glossy, slick finish.


color field

(art) A large area of flat, solid color, characteristic of a school of modernist abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.


idea art

(art) A form of art based on small individual ideas rather than generic aesthetic, material and disciplinary concerns.


infinity shot

[…] opaque infra-red filters may be conveniently focused by pointing at a bright sun when using them for infinity shots.

The lens was a macro, capable of everything from an “infinity shot” to a close-up in which a single fingerprint filled the entire frame.

(photography) A photograph with the focus in the far distance.


multinegative

(photography, printing) An array of several negatives to be printed together by photolithography


multipositive

(photography, printing) An array of several positive images to be printed together by photolithography


metamatic

Tinguely organized a metamatic art contest for the best picture made on his machines and told a reporter that a metamatic was “an anti-abstract machine, because it proves that anyone can make an abstract picture, even a machine.

1994, Joann R. Prosyniuk, Lawrence J. Trudeau, Modern Arts Criticism, page 289:

In the 1950s, he made a series of motor-driven devices that he called metamatics, which produced instant abstract paintings. He programmed these metamatics electronically to act with an antimechanical unpredictability when someone inserted a felt-tipped marking pen into a pincer and pressed a button […]

2015, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art through the Ages: Backpack Edition, Book E:

(art) Any of a series of machines built in the mid-1950s by Jean Tinguely, able to produce drawings by means of a motor-driven arm.


gillygaloo

(US folklore) A fictional bird said to nest on hillsides and to lay square eggs that will not roll downhill.


runpast

The Znin Wask (600mm) narrow-gauge line. 0-4-0 tender/tank No T49 114 stages a photographic runpast for the WRS party.

1979 August, P.R.G Kennard, “Polish steam panorama”, in Railway World, page 419, photo caption:

(rail transport, photography) A staged event, usually on a railfans' excursion, where a train runs past a group of photographers, who photograph the scene.


Hypergon

(photography) A wide-angle lens, forming a flat field, constructed symmetrically with two deep meniscus elements that almost form a sphere.


hypoeliminator

(photography, historical) A solution used to remove sodium thiosulfate ("hypo") from fixed plates or prints.


Nanabozho

Nanaboozhoo (alternative)
Manabozho (alternative)
Wanabozho (alternative)
Nanabush (alternative)

(folklore) An Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero.


bromizer

(photography) A bromide added to a collodion or gelatin emulsion.


Kirlian photography

(parapsychology, photography) A technique for recording photographic images of corona discharges and hence, supposedly, the auras of living creatures.


profil perdu

(painting, photography) A view of the subject from partially behind, such that only one side of the face is visible.


superflat

(art) A postmodern art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami, influenced by manga, anime, and Japanese consumer culture.


parallax motion

en-noun

parallax motion (plural parallax motions)

(photography, optics) The apparent motion of a tracking-locked foreground object against a background, when the camera is moving across the environment. (ie. A stationary object will appear to move across a background, when a moving camera is locked to track it)


motion parallax

(photography, optics) The illusion of higher speed travel of a foreground object moving, when it is closer to the observer/camera, than when it is further away.


OIS

OIS (countable and uncountable, plural OIS)

(photography) Initialism of optical image stabilization.


Waterfall

(art, historical) A stylistic art trend for furniture which was popular in the 1930s and 1940s, featuring wooden surfaces and curved edges prominently in its design.


camback

(photography) An act or instance of responding to being filmed by filming the videographer himself.


camback

en-verb

camback (third-person singular simple present cambacks, present participle cambacking, simple past and past participle cambacked)

cambacks (present singular third-person)
cambacking (participle present)
cambacked (participle past)
cambacked (past)

(transitive, intransitive, photography) To react or respond to a videographer who is filming by filming the videographer.


pincushion distortion

(graphic design) In graphic arts, the effect whereby the image of a straight line appears to be pinched convexly toward the axis.


barrel distortion

(graphic design) In graphic arts, the effect whereby an image bulges outwards at the sides.


Leica

A portmanteau of Leitz (the company's founder) and camera.

Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.

1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:


landscapism

Landscapism was not to be confined to a purely aesthetic debate; a veritable science of landscapism, the science of objective space par excellence, university geography, took form during the era of the Parnassians.

1988, Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune, page 85:

Although one can catch glimpses of an English-style “landscapism”, Rubiò always used this style in a local context, keenly aware of the local environment and climate of the South: the green, grassy or ivy lawn became the canvas on which to place various species of plants, and topiary, offering a sort of contrast between geometry and “landscapism”.

2009, Mariella Zoppi, History of the European garden, page 257:

(art) The conventional artistic portrayal of picturesque landscapes.


rotary table

(metalworking) A device for precisely positioning the workpiece, enabling the operator to drill or cut at exact intervals around a fixed axis.


edge control

We do not feel that it is necessary to go below 3 inch rotors since an effective edge control strategy will control the narrow edge shape problem without an accurate measurement of the problem.

1984, Aluminum Association Shape Control Workshop Papers, page 22:

Edge control not only helps to meet the need for strip shape quality, but also improve the yield of strip.

2011, Hui Xuan Zhang, Ye Han, Fu Xiao Chen, Materials and Computational Mechanics, page 134:

Center and edge control of linewidth and isolated and nested lines have been the primary control metrics of interest for plasma etching .

2018, William S. Levine, The Control Handbook, pages 11-15:

From the perspective of cyber-physical space mapping, the technologies of software definition and virtualization modeling are extended to edge hardware resources (including: terminal device resources, edge control device resources, edge computing resources, edge storage resources) and edge application services.

2020, Pengfei Hu, Chunming He, “Edge Computing-Based Solution and Framework for Software-Defined Industrial Intelligent Control in Industrial Internet of Things”, in Huansheng Ning, Feifei Shi, editor, Cyberspace Data and Intelligence, and Cyber-Living, Syndrome, and Health, page 148:

(design) Control over the exact placement of edges on a line or shape one is mapping, cutting, or etching.


stickyback

She did not need a passport, but Michael advised her to get a few snapshots. So she went and had some "stickybacks" taken.

1939, Madeleine Elise Reynier Boyd, Life Makes Advances:

(photography, historical) A small photographic portrait with an adhesive backing.


formalesque

From formal + -esque; coined in 1994 by Australian art historian Bernard Smith, since the period referred to by "modernist" was by then no longer modern.

(art) modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960


tonalise

tonalise (third-person singular simple present tonalises, present participle tonalising, simple past and past participle tonalised)

tonalises (present singular third-person)
tonalising (participle present)
tonalised (participle past)
tonalised (past)

With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle. Cora knew what that meant, and stood to be tonalised, relieving self-consciousness in her muscles by stretching and relaxing, and preening up her breasts in those cat-like turnings and twistings of her body that seemed to make an ostentatious exhibition of its graces because of her affectation of unawareness in being looked at.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:

(art, painting) To view or create in terms of tonalism.


kinetography

(dated, photography) The use of the kinetograph.


jincan

(folklore) A poisonous gold-coloured silkworm or caterpillar in Chinese legend.


sowlth

All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.

(folklore) A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.


pillow shading

(art) A shading technique where shadow is added toward the edges of objects in a scene, irrespective of the light source.


aerial photograph

en-noun

aerial photograph (plural aerial photographs)

■ An aerial photograph - NR [Network Rail] now has its entire network photographed from the air.

2021 November 17, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Salisbury: a media own goal”, in RAIL, number 944, page 3:

(photography) A photograph taken from an aircraft, or by a drone remotely controlled from the ground.


wet palette

(art) A palette having a layer of absorbent material that allows the paint to remain hydrated for an extended period of time.


Holbeinesque

en-adj

Holbeinesque (comparative more Holbeinesque, superlative most Holbeinesque)

more Holbeinesque (comparative)
most Holbeinesque (superlative)

(art) Reminiscent of the style of Hans Holbein the younger.


Five Poisons

(folklore) Five animals regarded as poisonous or otherwise hazardous in Chinese folklore: typically snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, and spiders.


bandwork

Coordinate term: strapwork

(art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.


sound art

(art) An artistic discipline in which sound is used as a primary medium or material.


comprachico

Coined from Spanish roots by the French writer Victor Hugo in his 1869 novel L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs). The word is not generally known in Spanish.

But here in England a comprachico is equal to a murderer, a candidate for the hangman's noose.

1969, Günther Weisenborn, The Man Without a Face, page 10:

He is angry and equips himself accordingly—with a penknife to give the offender a comprachico countenance, a mirror to show him the effect, and a pair of nailed boots to give him his dismissal.

2016, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus:

(folklore) A person who deliberately mutilates a growing child in order to induce freakish physical traits.


field painting

(art) The style of modernist abstract painting that employs color fields.


field painter

(art) An artist working in the style of field painting.


Buyan

From Russian Буя́н (Buján). See there for further information.

(Slavic mythology, folklore) In medieval Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.

Bouïane

a mysterious island in the Russian folklore


snapshotter

It is time we forgot the old distinctive class borderline between the snapshotter and the amateur photographer, which was based on the capabilities of the equipment the two sectors used.

1987, The British Journal of Photography, volume 134:

The implication is that the snapshotter, because of his unwillingness to slow down and perceive the complexity of the unmediated landscape, could only wreak havoc with his camera.

2010, Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google, UPNE, →ISBN, page 50:

(uncommon, photography) Synonym of snapshooter


autoparody

This was exactly why, for him, the autoparody became her inescapable prison. Above all, this EuroBrazilian artist had, and continued to have, a defining impact within Brazil's mainstream sense of selfhood, so much so that by the late[…]

2015 August 26, Cristina F. Rosa, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation, Springer, →ISBN:

1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody. Consciously or not, Bruckner reuses an imitative sequence from the Kyrie of Palestrina's Mass in his wellknown setting (ca. 1886) of the Gradual Christus[…]

2015 June 24, Chester L. Alwes, A History of Western Choral Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

As Osolsobě observes, parody was both a sign of reputation and a tool with which to achieve it, with eighteenth- century French authors of operas often creating parodies of their own works (autoparodies): parodies not only promote the[…]

2022, Christopher R. Wilson, Mervyn Cooke, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 776:

(literature, art, music) A parody of one's own work.


uke-e

Transliteration of Japanese 有卦絵 (うけえ, ukee), from 有卦 (うけ, uke, “streak of luck”) (有 (う, u, “to have, possess”) + 卦 (け, ke, “divination symbol or sign”)) + 絵 (え, e, “picture”).

translit

This print uses letters as part of the picture but is also an example of an uke-e (lucky print). […] On entering a good luck phase a person would receive gifts such as this print containing seven words beginning with the syllable fu (from fuku = happiness).

2006, Rebecca Salter, “Leisure, Pleasure, Play”, in Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards (A Latitude 20 Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, figure 138 caption, page 134:

(art) A kind of ukiyo-e (“Japanese painting or woodblock print showing a scene of everyday life”) depicting an auspicious subject, which was popular in Japan during the late 1800s.

uke-e

kind of ukiyo-e depicting an auspicious subject


anticlassicist

(art) One who opposes or rejects what is classical.


anticlassicism

(art) Opposition to, or rejection of, what is classical.


Mondrianian

en-adj

Mondrianian (comparative more Mondrianian, superlative most Mondrianian)

more Mondrianian (comparative)
most Mondrianian (superlative)

(art) Of or relating to Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Dutch painter and pioneer of 20th-century abstract art.


apoxyomenos

From Ancient Greek ἀποξυόμενος (apoxuómenos), present mediopassive participle of ἀποξύω (apoxúō, “to scrape off”).

(art) A conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.


photogenia

(photography) The various photographic techniques, such as lighting, focus and framing, used to make a subject look more attractive.


coltpixie

coltpixies (plural)
coltpixy (alternative)

(UK, Hampshire, archaic, folklore) A kind of hobgoblin.


colortype

colortypes (plural)
colourtype (alternative)

There are two good colortypes and a number of half-tone illustrations. Many of the latter have unfortunately been spoiled in the printing.

(photography, historical) A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).


vyaz

(calligraphy) A traditional lettering style for Cyrillic and Slavosphere Latin, slender, ornate and interweaving.


retrospectography

From retrospect + -o- + -graphy in both senses. The radiologic sense (from the early 20th century) was developed by radiology technicians and radiologists (who were not yet differentiated from each other at the time). The sense of reviewing photographs and learning additional insights about their subjects/contents was developed in 2017 by Jeffrey Ross of the website JBRish.com.

(art, photography, rare) The further appreciation of a photograph or picture which reveals insights into that image which were not recognized or appreciated at the time of original capture.


mortise wheel

(woodworking) A cast-iron wheel, consisting of wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge.


midlight

From mid + light. Formed by analogy with lowlight and highlight.

(painting, photography) An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is somewhat illuminated.


subrealism

The infection of Surrealism (subrealism) in the painter's and sculptor's art naturally found its way into the practice of the most universal of the arts.

1937, Henry Rankin Poore, Art's Place in Education, page 90:

But as the development of cubism and other tendencies shows, contemporary art tends to slip away into antirealist abstraction, subrealism and subjectivist creationism, obeying no laws but its own.

1959, Luis Díez del Corral, The Rape of Europe, page 214:

[…] what André Breton called a higher reality—Surrealism. Herbert Read, ironically, called it Superrealism. I would like to suggest that it is a reality of depth, not height, thus—Subrealism. The sound and light of every painter is ultimately this kind, an intensity and unity that demands the courage to dig, the tenacity to cover the distance, and the poetry to bring it to terms.

1981, Arts Magazine, volume 56, page 154:

Give up surrealism that only nourishes subrealism; the two of them, along with the so-called "natural," have got a dubious stench of urinals and churches.

1981, Charles Russell, The Avant-garde Today: An International Anthology, page 208:

Whereas surrealism sought to transcend reality from above, 'subrealism' sought to 'dive through the bottom of reality.' The three artists' activities in Shimomaruko were based on this idea.

2018, Kenji Hasegawa, Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan, page 99:

The kibyōshi picture is a kind of visual paradox in this sense, presenting the reader with the spectacle of subrealism in its sketchiness and hyperrealism in its obsessive attention to trivia drawn from everyday life.

2020, Adam Kern, Manga from the Floating World:

(art) An artistic movement that seeks to explore the basis of perception.

While we wait for the necessary publication of a book about "subrealism" in the cinema, almost entirely devoted to French cinema, with an additional chapter on neo-subrealism , Shoot the Piano Player already presents us with a repertoire sufficiently stocked with the characteristic traits of the new school.

1972, Leo Braudy, Focus on Shoot the Piano Player, page 71:

Thus the fight between socialist realism and Gulag subrealism was not a fight for a dominant artistic method or aesthetic principle, nor even for an adequate epistemological approach, but a fight for the true communist ontology.

1995, Vladislav Todorov, Red Square, Black Square, page 121:

But Sade's ethnographic subrealism exceeds Marx's historical analysis, supplementing Marx's theoretical enterprise with a monstrous form of critical literary engagement.

1999, Deepak Narang Sawhney, Must We Burn Sade?, page 69:

For the avant-garde poet and critic Juan Larrea, the inclination toward the low is approached as a “subrealism” (1944, 89).

2010, Lara Anderson, J. P. Spicer-Escalante, Au Naturel: (Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism, page 234:

(art) The artistic exploration of perverse and unpleasant subject matter.


formline

(art) A curvilinear line fundamental to Native American art of the Pacific Northwest.


coelo-

classical compound
international scientific vocabulary

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow; concave; a cavity, hollow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell; to be strong”)); developed from such earlier Latin terms as coeliac and coelom.

der

Near-synonyms: abdomin-, abdomino-

(art, sciences) hollow; cavity; as:
(anatomy, medicine) abdominal cavity.


ganutell

Borrowed from Maltese ganutell, from Italian cannotiglio.

(art) An art form of making artificial flowers out of wire, beads, and thread.


pre-Romanesque

From pre- + Romanesque, ultimately pre- + Roman + -esque.

Early Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages#English

Migration Period
Migration Period#English

(architecture, art) Pertaining to or characteristic of the art and architecture of the Early Middle Ages in around the 6th to 11th centuries, after the Migration Period and before the Romanesque era.


Nickneven

(folklore) A hag or evil spirit in Scottish folklore.


flying rowan

(folklore) A rowan tree growing parasitically on another tree, or from a wall, roof, etc., once believed in Scandinavia to have magical powers.


effluviography

(photography, obsolete) The effects upon the dry photographic plate of certain electric emanations, including those later known as the X-rays.


elementarist

(art) One who works in the artistic style of elementarism.


die cutting

(metalworking) The general process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials.


bisexual lighting

en-noun

bisexual lighting (countable and uncountable, plural bisexual lightings)

/baɪˌsɛkʃʊəl ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

From bisexual (adjective) + lighting (noun), referring to the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag (also known as the bisexual pride flag).

(LGBTQ, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.


pancake lens

A particularly fitting choice is the small and flexible XF27mmF2.8 pancake lens. With it, the camera fits in the pocket of almost every coat or jacket.

2015, Rico Pfirstinger, The Fujifilm X-T10 […] , Rocky Nook, →ISBN:

(photography, optics, informal) A type of flat lens design.


available light

(film, photography) Light from sources that are not explicitly supplied by the photographer, such as natural light or pre-existing street lighting.


MILC

mirrorless interchangeable lens camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of mirrorless interchangeable lens camera.. A digital camera similar to a DSLR, with a lens mount that can change out and accept different lenses, without the reflexive mirror mechanism of SLRs.


hexaptych

From Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold”).

(art) A polyptych consisting of six sections.


morticer

(woodworking) Alternative spelling of mortiser


mortiser

(woodworking) A person or a machine that cuts mortises.


Orphist

(art) An artist working in the style of Orphism.


dark room

There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.

1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

(photography) Alternative form of darkroom


metagelatin

(photography) A form of gelatin treated so that it remains fluid.


splatterwork

(art) The creation of a design on a surface by spattering colouring matter upon it.


barstock

(metalworking) Alternative form of bar stock


scagliolist

(art, archaic) An artist who works with gypsum.


design language

design language (plural design languages)

Apple's design language has evolved over time. In the 1980s frogdesign created the “Snow White design language” for Apple that was characterized by its use of vertical and horizontal stripes as decoration, various means of making the computer enclosure appear smaller that it actually was, and the distinctive off-white color.

2010, Hossein Bidgoli, editor, The Handbook of Technology Management, Supply Chain Management, Marketing and Advertising, and Global Management, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 314:

(design) A cohesive visual style and user experience applied consistently throughout the design of a product.


slaggable

en-adj

slaggable (comparative more slaggable, superlative most slaggable)

more slaggable (comparative)
most slaggable (superlative)

(metalworking) Able to be turned into slag.


slaggability

(metalworking) The quality or degree of being slaggable.


panchromatize

en-verb

panchromatize (third-person singular simple present panchromatizes, present participle panchromatizing, simple past and past participle panchromatized)

panchromatizes (present singular third-person)
panchromatizing (participle present)
panchromatized (participle past)
panchromatized (past)

(transitive, photography) To cover with a panchromatic coating.


Ascapart

Ascupart (alternative)
Ascapard (alternative)
Ascopard (alternative)
Ascopart (alternative)
Asgapard (alternative)

(European folklore) A legendary giant in English folklore.


gallitrap

(folklore, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset) Grass growing in a circle that possesses the magical power of compelling anyone standing within it to confess their wrongdoings.

(folklore, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset) A magical circle of grass believed to have been created by pixies, that causes any mortal stepping into it to believe they are continuing to walk forward when they are actually walking in a circle.


AOV

(photography) Abbreviation of angle of view.


AoV

(photography) Initialism of angle of view.


tamanoas

(folklore) Magical power, in the Chinook culture.


snapshottery

He carried a sheaf of photographs. Some were large and were regularly mounted; others were but the informal products of snapshottery.

1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Entertains Several Ladies”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 147:

There was a series of ‘studies’ of the school buildings and grounds, in various lights, consciously trying to avoid the snapshottery which had been his previous manner.

1966, Jim Hunter, chapter 6, in The Flame,, New York: Pantheon, page 40:

[He] strove to demarcate his practice from professional photography on the one hand, and mere snapshottery on the other […]

1999, Reuel Golden, “Alvin Langdon Coburn”, in Masters of Photography, London: Carlton, published 2008, page 56:

(photography, chiefly derogatory) The practice of taking snapshots; the style or characteristics of snapshots.


Yamato-e

(art) A classical Japanese style of painting, characterized by many small figures, detailed depictions of buildings and other objects, an oblique view from above showing interiors, and partial depictions with the remaining area ignored or covered by a cloud.


shriker

(folklore) Synonym of shuck (“supernatural black dog”)


half-frame

(photography) Being or relating to a kind of film camera using a film format of half the usual exposure size of a 35mm camera.


overcaster

[…] if it is desired to prolong for some special reason the life of the book without incurring the expense of a careful repair by an experienced overcaster.


CFast

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFast: a flash memory format, the successor to the CompactFlash format, using the same physical form factor, updating the interface from IDE to SATA.


CFlash

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFlash: a flash memory format, the predecessor to the CompactFast format, using the same physical form factor, but with the older IDE interface instead of SATA.


CFlash

(photography) A CompactFlash memory card


ozobrome

(photography, historical) A form of carbro print.


Payne's grey

Named after the watercolour painter William Payne.

(art) A dark blue-grey colour used in painting, originally a mixture of iron blue (Prussian blue), yellow ochre and crimson lake.


microflash

A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows.

1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31:

Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.

2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283:

(photography) A flash of extremely short duration.


Paul Veronese green

(art) A brilliant bluish-green pigment made with copper arsenate.


mediobrome

For darkening any print area larger than a spot, mediobrome is the best friend of the bungling tyro with ten thumbs!

(photography, historical, chiefly attributive) A variant of the bromoil process.


Bolley's green

(art) A green pigment made from copper sulfate and borax.


fairy hill

On this Hill [...] are the Remains of a CAMP, and where the Ground has suffered no Rupture are to be seen Tokens of circular Tents, called Fairy Hills, round which the vulgar report these Sylphes were wont to dance.

1754, Thomas Gardner, An Historical Account of Dunwich, Antiently a City, Now a Borough, page 189:

Their Fairy hills were called Tomhans and Shian, and were supposed to possess great internal comforts, with doors and windows that could only be discovered on dark evenings, by the bright light of the fairy fires shining through the artfully-constructed apertures.

1865, Cuthbert Bede, The White Wife: With Other Stories, Supernatural, Romantic and Legendary, page 189:

Finally, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.

1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 136:

(folklore) A hill, barrow (tumulus), or other circular eminence, beneath which fairies live.


French cleat

(woodworking) A type of simple wall-hanging hardware.


medium long shot

en-noun

medium long shot (plural medium long shots)

A long shot or medium long shot will most successfully cover all of the action during the meeting of the two characters.

2012, Christopher J. Bowen, Roy Thompson, Grammar of the Shot, page 45:

The size of a medium long shot is also ideal to establish the dynamics of a relationship between characters, by the way they are placed within the composition (by using Hitchcock's rule, or balanced/unbalanced framings, for instance).

2013, Gustavo Mercado, The Filmmaker's Eye, page 53:

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the knees on up, wider than a medium shot but tighter than a long shot.


medium shot

The film then cuts to a medium shot, not of Marguerite but of Faust looking in the girl's direction with the devil posed somewhat artistically behind him, and the two begin to sing.

2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 81:

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.


antiplumming

Coordinate term: antibronzing

an antiplumming agent

(photography) Preventing plum-colored distortion of prints.


antibronzing

Coordinate term: antiplumming

an antibronzing agent

(photography) Preventing bronze-colored distortion of prints.


backerboard

backerboards (plural)
backer board (alternative)

A board used behind or under other material, often as support.

(carpentry, woodworking) A sacrificial board placed behind or under a board being drilled or sawn, so as to prevent blowouts. (Usually scrap ends reused for such purpose.)


wulver

(folklore) A wolf-like humanoid creature in Shetland folklore.


Caravaggisti

(art, historical) The stylistic followers of the late 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.


Clayden effect

Derived from experiments described by A. W. Clayden.

After I had established in this way the similarity between the action of electrical discharges and of the Röntgen rays, it was very important to determine whether here, as in the Clayden effect, it was a matter of the brief but intense light action of the spark or whether perhaps some special electrical property was the determining factor.

1910 April, Wilder D. Bancroft, “The Electrochemistry of light”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume 14, number 4, page 306:

Other important film effects such as reciprocity failure and intermittancy ^([sic]), adjacency effects, Herschel effects, solarization effects, and Clayden effects have not been considered in the simple discussion presented here, […]

1975, Coherent Optical Processing: Seminar, page 56:

This is an example of the Clayden effect shown by certain photographic emulsions. It is seen much more clearly on the negative, or in direct traces on an opaque film of the light of a more sensitive emulsion.

2022, Leonard B. Loeb, Electrical Coronas: Their Basic Physical Mechanisms, page 190:

(photography) A dark streak that appears in a photograph when there has been a very brief flash of intense light, such as a stroke of lightning, while the photographic plate is being exposed. This effect is caused by the flash causing the part of the photographic plate exposed to the intense light less sensitive, so that it is less affected than the surrounds during the rest of the exposure.


pâte-sur-pâte

From French pâte-sur-pâte (literally “paste on paste”).

bor

(art) A method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of slip (liquid clay) with a brush, and then carving it to produce fine detail, before the piece is fired.


backprime

en-verb

backprime (third-person singular simple present backprimes, present participle backpriming, simple past and past participle backprimed)

backprimes (present singular third-person)
backpriming (participle present)
backprimed (participle past)
backprimed (past)

From back + prime (“to prepare a mechanism for its main work; to apply a coat of primer paint to”).

af

I'm assuming a well-built building, with clear pine trim and vertical-grain red cedar clapboards. The first step is to backprime the trim and siding. Backpriming is simply painting the back of the boards — the side against the house — with oil-base primer before they are installed.

1992, Jim Locke, The Well-Built House, Revised edition, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 262:

One of the best ways to control wood movement and prevent splitting, warping, and shrinking is to backprime it (coat the back surfaces with either primer paint or stain) before installation.

2008, Clayton DeKorne, Ted Cushman, “Appendix A: Selecting Trim Materials”, in Finish Carpentry, Newton, CT: Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(transitive, woodworking) To apply a layer of primer to the back side of (a surface).


glaistig

glaistigs (plural)
glastig (alternative)

(folklore) A kind of ghost in Scottish folklore, usually depicted as a woman, a goat, or a hybrid of the two.


synchro-sunlight

(photography) The use of a flash in daylight in order to enhance the shadows in the resulting photograph.


white balance

(photography) The color correction applied to files created by a digital camera. It determines the color temperature of the image based on the type of scene lighting (natural or artificial) and can be selected automatically by the camera (automatic white balance or AWB) or manually by the photographer.


shoulder display

en-noun

shoulder display (plural shoulder displays)

(photography) A small LCD display integrated into the top of certain digital cameras, usually to the right of the viewfinder. It allows the photographer to quickly assess important settings of the camera at a glance, such as aperture, shutter speed, white balance or free space remaining on the memory card.


reverse painting

reverse painting (countable and uncountable, plural reverse paintings)

(uncountable) The application of paint to a sheet of glass to create a picture to be viewed through the glass from the other side.

(countable) An artwork produced in this way.


Eberhard effect

Eberhard effect (plural Eberhard effects)

(film, photography) The situation where narrow areas of high and low density cause two Mackie lines to meet, resulting in increased density in a small area.


step and repeat

(often attributive, design, computer graphics) A kind of design, typically for banners or backdrops, consisting of logos or images at fixed offsets.


shaving horse

It took about three long-pull shaves (right, left and middle) of the draw knife, upon the shingle, clamped in the shaving horse, to thin its top surface and straighten its long sides. Numerous missplits were thrown away.

1929, Henry C. Mercer, Ancient Carpenters' Tools, page 13:

Of the vises and devices used to hold wood while it's being worked, the shaving horse, or "mule," is among the most basic you can find.

1990 May-June, Don Weber, “Bodger's”, in American Woodworker, number 14, page 36:

Harkening back to a time when men like David Wright made furniture under a shady tree, this shaving horse could have been made centuries ago.

2004, Lon Schleining, The Workbench: A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench, page 189:

(woodworking) A device that allows a woodworker to sit astride it while it clamps onto a piece of wood which is being worked.


Hafner ware

Hafner ware (countable and uncountable, plural Hafner wares)

(art) A kind of glazed German earthenware.


Rayonism

Rayism (alternative)
Rayonnism (alternative)

(art) An abstract futurist art movement that developed in Russia in 1910–1914.


Kitezh

(Slavic mythology, folklore) A city in Russian folklore that was believed to have disappeared under a lake, to avoid being conquered by the Mongols.


bleach bypass

The bleach-bypass really captured the light of Mexico City, especially given that we shot the commercial on a very grey and overcast day. […] The bleach-bypass process I find has a spiritual quality that I relate to and really love.

2021, Jason Wood, quoting Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

(photography, cinematography) A film laboratory technique where the bleach stage during the development of a color film is skipped, resulting in images with increased contrast and graininess.


FFC

(photography) Initialism of Front-Facing Camera (used in smartphones)


Ab-Ex

Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism#English


digital image

(image processing, photography) An image composed of pixels.


Piggi-Billa

(folklore) An echidna that appears in Aboriginal fairy tales.


sportsfinder

(photography, historical) A kind of camera viewfinder made from wire rectangles, including a smaller one nearer the eye and a larger one further away, with no optics. The smaller rectangle was centered in the larger, which would then give an indication of what would be included in the photograph.


neo-expressionism

(art) A style of late modernist or early postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s as a reaction against the minimal and conceptual art of that time, and was characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.


neo-expressionistic

en-adj

neo-expressionistic (comparative more neo-expressionistic, superlative most neo-expressionistic)

more neo-expressionistic (comparative)
most neo-expressionistic (superlative)

(art) Of or relating to the style of neo-expressionism.


camera shake

The camera must be held quite still when the exposure is being made; by far the most common reason for unsatisfactory results is camera-shake at the moment of exposure.

1950 December, Canon Eric Treacy, “Railway Photography”, in Railway Magazine, page 796:

(photography) The involuntary movement of a camera at the time of exposure (when the shutter is activated), leading to blurring of the picture.


f/8 and be there

f/8 refers to an f-number of 8, which is considered a general-purpose aperture for all situations. Often attributed to street photographer Arthur Fellig; however, the origins of this saying are disputed.

in the right place at the right time
in the right place at the right time

(photography) Instead of focusing excessively on photographic technique, it is more important to be in the right place at the right time.


PTZ

(photography) Initialism of pan, tilt, zoom.


Dürer grid

Named after German artist Albrecht Dürer.

(art) A frame containing a grid of threads, designed to partition an image into segments to aid in perspective drawing.


self timer

(photography) A device on a camera that provides a delay between pressing the shutter release and the shutter's firing, for example to give the photographer time to join a group of people being photographed.


design system

Design systems are more than the latest fad; they are a natural evolution in the intersection between art, technology, and industry.

2019, Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis, Building Design Systems: Unify User Experiences through a Shared Design Language, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(design, graphical user interface) A collection of reusable components and clear standards that can be assembled together to build any number of applications; a unified design language.


changing bag

Where no dark-room is at hand for loading plate holders or developing tank, the Ingento rubber changing bag will be found very convenient.

1909, James Boniface Schriever, editor, Elementary Photography, American School of Art and Photography, page 196:

In sand or dust storms, motion-picture cameras should be loaded in a loading or changing bag. Small 16-mm. cameras can be placed inside the bag before the camera door is opened. With some 35-mm. cameras, the bag can be stretched over the lens to provide some degree of protection even though it cannot be sealed tightly.

1945, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Photography (Navy Training Courses), volume 2, Washington, D. C.: Navy Department, page 382:

A changing bag can be used for loading them into the tank, thus doing away with the necessity for a darkroom. The printing is best done when the expedition returns to base.

1979, George L. Wakefield, edited by George L. Wakefield, Leonard Gaunt, Paul Petzold, The Pictorial Cyclopedia of Photography, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 34:

The standard 400-foot rolls (11 minutes at 24 fps) are generally loaded into "magazines" in a lightproof changing bag, so that they are ready to be attached to the camera as soon as you want to shoot.

2023, Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 247:

(photography) A bag designed to protect unexposed film from light.


pocket-hole jig

en-noun

pocket-hole jig (plural pocket-hole jigs)

(woodworking) A type of tool used to drill a series of holes until a pocket-hole is created.


pocket-hole

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(woodworking) A type of joinery that involves drilling a hole at an angle in one piece which is then joined to another by a self-tapping screw.


Scholomance

(folklore) A fabled underground school of black magic in Romania.


Barbizon

(art, attributive) The Barbizon School, a realist art movement active roughly from 1830 to 1870, characterized by its tonal qualities, color, loose brushwork, and softness of form.


post-Cubist

(art) An artist who works in a style of art that developed from cubism.


selfie camera

(electronics, photography) A camera on the same side or surface of a smartphone as the main display, used for taking selfies and making video calls.


mirrorless camera

mirrorless camera (plural mirrorless cameras)

(photography) A digital camera which, in contrast to DSLRs, does not use a mirror in order to ensure that the image presented to the photographer through the viewfinder is identical to that taken by the camera.


legsie

(informal, photography) A photo of one's suntanned legs usually taken with a smartphone and shared on social media.


veneer saw

(woodworking) A small double-edged tool for cutting thin hardwood veneer.


effectism

I despise imitation and effectism. No great art ever rose or ever can rise that is based upon imitation or that sacrifices truth for effect.

1894, Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, The Forum, volume 17, page 696:

(art, derogatory) A form of art based on producing an effect rather than conveying an idea.


time-exposed

(photography) Of a photograph, exposed by leaving a camera's shutter open for a period greater than a fraction of a second.


pâte de verre

(glassblowing) A technique in which finely crushed glass, colorants, and binders are set in a mold and fired in a kiln.


cold shoe

(photography) A physical mounting point that connects accessories to cameras and photography gear, and which lacks any electronic contacts.


time for print

(modeling, photography) An arrangement between a model and a photographer whereby the photographer agrees to provide the model with a number of photographs from the session, and a release or license to use them, in return for the model's time.


remjet

From the traditional process of removing the layer, removal by jets of water, although the layer can be and often is removed chemically.

(photography, cinematography) The anti-halation layer on ECN-2, Kodachrome, and several other types of photographic or motion picture film. It is an opaque black coating on the non-emulsion side of the film that is removed before the development process.


pixels per inch

(graphic design, typography) A measurement of the pixel density of an electronic image device, such as a computer monitor or television display.


fuzzyism

(photography, rare) The studied production of photographs that are blurry or out of focus.


scaled copy

(design, mathematics) A copy of a figure in which every length in the original is multiplied by the same scale factor.


closed assembly time

closed assembly time (countable and uncountable, plural closed assembly times)

(woodworking) The time elapsing between the closed contact of an assembly of glued joints until application or full pressure.


cubo-futuristic

en-adj

cubo-futuristic (comparative more cubo-futuristic, superlative most cubo-futuristic)

more cubo-futuristic (comparative)
most cubo-futuristic (superlative)

(art, historical) Relating to cubo-futurism.


twisted perspective

One example of twisted perspective is the ‘law of frontality, which, with about a four-hundred-year period of minor exceptions, dominated Egyptian art for over twenty-five hundred years. It allows views only of the full surface, whether front, side or rear, of the part to be depicted. It does not allow views of partial surfaces as seen in life, nor of oblique angles showing sides foreshortened[…]

2004, Brener, Milton E., Vanishing points: Three dimensional perspective in art and history, page 16:

(art) A perspective that combines both profile view and front view.


tearout

en-noun

tearout (countable and uncountable, plural tearouts)

He's got a bunch of tearouts on the finished side. It's cheaper and easier to redo it than to patch it, but the job's unprofitable either way.

The heartwood gave consistently better results than the sapwood, in fact nearly all the tearouts and most of the rough cutting were found in the sapwood.

1949, E. M. Davis, “Shaping the End Grain of Redwood for Core Stock”, in United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, editor, Reports, page 11:

Tearout can also occur below the final depth of cut.

2002, Gary Rogowski, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery, page 21:

This slot is a hot zone for tearout because it creates an unsupported surface for the material being cut.

en:damage at exit side of drilled hole or sawn edge

(carpentry, woodworking) Synonym of blowout.


time catch

(photography) A photographic technique in which the shutter of a camera is held in a position for a fixed time.


time stretching

(film, photography) A type of slow motion editing achieved during post-production by inserting new frames in between frames that have actually been photographed.


QPQ

(metalworking) Initialism of quench polish quench (“a treatment process for hardening steel, i.e. enhancing its corrosion resistance”).


buy with one's ears

en-verb

buy with one's ears (third-person singular simple present buys with one's ears, present participle buying with one's ears, simple past and past participle bought with one's ears)

buys with one's ears (present singular third-person)
buying with one's ears (participle present)
bought with one's ears (participle past)
bought with one's ears (past)

Foreign buyers entering the western art market are also buying artists with their ears rather than their eyes, and overpaying if others have.

2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:

(art, colloquial) To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value.


open assembly time

en-noun

open assembly time (countable and uncountable, plural open assembly times)

(materials science, woodworking) The measure of time commencing from the application of an adhesive on a substrate until it is assembled without the loss of bonding strength.


roller machine

(machinery, metalworking) A type of manufacturing equipment containing two or more rollers through which raw metal is fed.


unexpected red theory

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First gained popularity on the social media platform TikTok in January 2024. Coined by Taylor Migliazzo Simon in early 2024.

Of course, the other essential part of the “unexpected red theory” is the unexpected — the element of surprise.

2024 February 24, Ingrid Fetell Lee, “The science behind the “unexpected red theory””, in The Aesthetics of Joy:

(social media, design, fashion, neologism) A trend in interior design based on the idea that any room will appear more attractive if one adds a red item or feature to it, especially if the red item appears unusual or mismatches the other colors in the room.


spathroom

Blend of spa + bathroom. Attested from at least the 2010s (see quotations below).

A recent survey by bathroom specialists Villeroy & Boch confirms that view, dubbing the space the "spathroom". It found that almost half of Britons say they consider their bathroom an important private space where they can relax

2014 February 3, “Splash out with a bathroom facelift: Pull the plug on your outdated bathroom and create your own spa at home”, in Hull Daily Mail, page 20:

It’s why that major home-living trend cocooning is becoming more and more entrenched and now also moving in to bathrooms in the form of the spathroom.

2023 January 16, “Bring the world to a stop in your spathroom sanctuary”, in IMM Colongne:

Sleek cylinder lights are perfect for a spathroom with their elegant elongated holder. They pair beautifully with round or dome shades giving an air of simplicity and calm.

2023 May 2, Isobel Green, “Lighting the way to fabulous style”, in Echo News, South Essex: Gannett:

As he explains, your bathroom doesn’t have to be so clinical. Give it the upgrade it deserves, to make it a 'spa- bathroom' or a spathroom.

2024 April 12, “From spa bathrooms to curvy comfort: Must-have design trends for 2024”, in Gulf News, Dubai:

(nutrition, design) A bathroom that has been designed to be very clean, comfortable and relaxing, like a spa.


time shutter

(photography) A shutter in a camera designed for making time exposures.


time stop

(optics, photography) A stop (mechanical part that adjusts an aperture or interval size) which operates on a timer.


recycling time

recycling time (countable and uncountable, plural recycling times)

(photography) The delay time required to recharge the capacitor in a flashgun.

(photography) The amount of time a digital camera requires to reset the flash between one photograph and the next.


exposure time

exposure time (countable and uncountable, plural exposure times)

(photography) The total amount of time for which the film of a traditional camera or a sensor of a digital camera is exposed to the light so as to record a photograph.


frame time

frame time (countable and uncountable, plural frame times)

(film, television, photography) The total amount of time required for a single frame to be displayed on the screen, measured in seconds.


recycle time

recycle time (countable and uncountable, plural recycle times)


color timing

color timing (countable and uncountable, plural color timings)

(film, photography) The process of adjusting the amount of red, green, and blue light used to create a film positive from a film negative in an analog film lab.


dooligah

(folklore) In Australian Aboriginal folklore, a giant hairy man said to abduct children.


dab out

en-verb

dab out (third-person singular simple present dabs out, present participle dabbing out, simple past and past participle dabbed out)

dabs out (present singular third-person)
dabbing out (participle present)
dabbed out (participle past)
dabbed out (past)

(transitive, art) To dab (to press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing) using paint to produce a desired effect.


rigaree

From Italian rigare, from riga (“line”) + -are, inherited from Old Italian riga, from Lombardic rīga (“line, row”), from Proto-Germanic *rīgǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyk- (-kh-) (“to scratch, cut”).

der

(glassblowing) Parallel scores on a raised band, tear, or collar produced using ridges on the edge of a metal wheel.


cacher box

cacher boxes (plural)
casher box (alternative)

(glassblowing) A triangular iron trough lined with wood and used for holding worked glass pieces while they await the lehr.


linnet hole

(glassblowing, usually in the plural) A small flue connecting a furnace and a caulker, of about the diameter to admit a linnet.


responsive web design

Coordinate term: adaptive web design

(design, Web) Approach to web design that makes Web pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes to ensure usability and satisfaction.

اَلتَّصْمِيمُ الْمُسْتَجِيبُ لِمَوَاقِعِ الْوَيبْ


CLC

en-noun

CLC (countable and uncountable, plural CLCs)

(photography) Initialism of contrast light compensation.


center stick

(juggling) The baton in a devil sticks set.


fan camera photography

(military, photography) Photography taken simultaneously by an assembly of three or more cameras systematically installed at fixed angles relative to each other.


water sprite

(folklore) A general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes is able to fly.


gentry bush

(Ireland, folklore) A thorny bush, especially a hawthorn.


miter square

(tools, carpentry, woodworking) A hand tool used in woodworking and metalworking for marking and checking angles other than 90°.


kip up

en-verb

kip up (third-person singular simple present kips up, present participle kipping up, simple past and past participle kipped up)

kips up (present singular third-person)
kipping up (participle present)
kipped up (participle past)
kipped up (past)

(sports, acrobatics) To perform a kip-up manoeuvre.


line drawing

From line + drawing. First use appears c. 1891. The figurative sense is a deverbal form of the expression draw the line. The exact date of its first appearance is uncertain.

(art) A pen or pencil drawing consisting only of solid lines.


mojo hand

(African-American, spirituality, folklore) A small flannel bag containing one or more magical items.

African-American; spirituality; African-American; spirituality


healing art

(art, uncommon) Any type of art or art form intended for therapeutic purposes.


ANSI art

ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.

(computing, art) A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.

American National Standards Institute
en:ANSI X3.64
en:ANSI art


preview-quality

en-noun

preview-quality (usually uncountable, plural preview-qualities)

(computing, graphic design) A type of resolution that is visible in icons, thumbnails, or previews of operations such as scans and printing.


sponge brush

When dry, the paper must be pinned out on a board, and the silver solution spread over it, boldly but lightly, with a very soft sponge brush.

1853, Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography, page 88:

The sponge-brush is moistened with the caustic liquid, and it is introduced at several intervals upon all the points of mucous membrane which it can reach.

1859, P. Bretonneau, Memoirs on Diphtheria, page 248:

The acid nitrate of mercury also requires the aid of the sponge-brush for its application.

1868, Sir Erasmus Wilson, On Diseases of the Skin - A System of Cutaneous Medicine, page 381:

Using sponge brush, topcoat plate with Teal Green. Let dry.

2001, Plaid, Decoupage the Easy Way, page 54:

(photography, crafts) A sponge head attached to a handle, allowing for the smooth and even application of liquids.


clurichaun

clurichauns (plural)
cluracan (alternative)
cluracaun (alternative)
cluricaun (alternative)
cluricaune (alternative)
clúrachán (alternative)

The residents of a house would leave offerings for the clurichaun, who sing in Gaelic with enchantingly beautiful voices. Related to leprechauns, clurichauns are house faeries who specialize in caring for and protecting wine and beer cellars.

2012, Sirona Knight, Wiccan Spell A Night, Kensington Publishing, unnumbered page:

2016, Keith B. Darrell, Flashbacks: Fangs & Fur, Book 1, Amber Book Company, unnumbered page,
"Clurichauns are Dark Fae cousins of leprechauns," Aurae explained. "Unlike their Seelie Court cousins, the clurichauns drink to excess and are seldom sober. But despite always being drunk, the clurichauns are impeccably groomed and well-dressed... although they can be a bit surly."

(Irish folklore) A mischievous, potentially malicious fairy, akin to the leprechaun, that greatly loves drinking and tends to haunt breweries, pubs and wine cellars.


rehalogenize

en-verb

rehalogenize (third-person singular simple present rehalogenizes, present participle rehalogenizing, simple past and past participle rehalogenized)

rehalogenizes (present singular third-person)
rehalogenizing (participle present)
rehalogenized (participle past)
rehalogenized (past)

On the other hand, in the uniformly illuminated particle, if the light is powerful enough to rehalogenize the subsalt at all, it will do so uniformly.

1897 December, E. A. Robins, “Halation”, in Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, volume 28, number 12, page 272:

Following the silver dye-bleach, unwanted silver salts are removed in a fixing bath. In some processes this fixer may be preceded by a silver bleach to rehalogenize silver image not oxidized by the dye-bleach.

2000, Ralph Jacobson, Sidney Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, Manual of Photography:

As previously explained in the chapter "What's going one?", the halide in the bleach is used to rehalogenize the emulsion and this profoundly affects the way the emulsion will develop or tone.

2003, Tim Rudman, The Photographer's Toning Book: The Definitive Guide, page 39:

(photography) To restore or replace halogen atoms in a halogenated compound that is used in the emulsion layer of film or photographic paper.


ghost bullet

People believe that a beast shoots "ghost bullets" when they ford a stream in Sihch'uan at any time except the winter months .

1968, Wolfram Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, page 195:

The leaves were used in the removal of ghost bullets " (supernatural objects that were shot into people by ghosts).

Pushing Teddy off, ignoring the part of him that mourned the loss—not the time, dumbass, not the time, ghosts were kind of a big fucking deal—he scrambled to his knees and looked at where the ghost had tried to put a ghost bullet in his brain.

"Somebody shot the doctor," the big police sergeant said. "It wasn't a ghost bullet; it was lead.

It was a ward against ghosts, but he was pretty sure it wasn't going to stop a ghost bullet.

2017, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors, page 105:

He ain't shootin' ghost bullets, neither. Here's his slug.

2020, Kenneth Robeson, The Squeaking Goblin, page 66:

(folklore or fantasy) A supernatural bullet that wounds or kills a person, especially one that is shot by a supernatural assailant.


imbunche

(folklore) In Chilote folklore, a deformed humanoid monster that protects the entrance to a warlock's cave.


toyol

(folklore) An undead infant in Indonesian and Malay folklore, typically invoked as a helper by black magic.


Abbreviation of free to use, from free + 2 (“abbreviation of to”) + use.

compound

abbreviation of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">to</i>

(furry fandom, Internet slang, art) A drawing or render, usually line art, that may be adapted, coloured in or altered.


light profile

en-noun

light profile (countable and uncountable, plural light profiles)

Each male summons forth a female pendant down along its contour, a negative of itself with which it is locked into a kiss: the male "shadow profile" at left is kissing a female "light profile"; the male "light profile" at right, a female "shadow profile."

2016, Sebastian Zeidler, Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art, page 198:

(art) An outline or profile in which the figure is light and the background is shadow.


triptography

(art, photography) A surrealist photographic technique whereby a roll of film is used three times (by one or more photographers), resulting in a triple exposure with no clear subject.


cubomania

(art) The surrealist technique of making collages by cutting an image into squares and reassembling them at random.


bulletism

(art) The surrealist technique of shooting ink at a blank piece of paper to produce an initial shape.


heatage

(art, photography) The surrealist technique of heating an exposed but unfixed photographic negative, resulting in a distorted image.


étrécissement

étrécissement (countable and uncountable, plural étrécissements)

From French [Term?]. See étrécir (“to make narrow”).

(uncountable) The surrealist technique of cutting away parts of images to develop a new image.

(countable) An image formed by this technique.


involuntary sculpture

involuntary sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural involuntary sculptures)

(art) In surrealism, "sculpture" formed by absent-mindedly manipulating an object.


paranoiac-critical

[T]heir motions tend to convey a kind of implicit critique of the social as surface, as empty speech, and commence a paranoiac-critical stance toward society which is refigured into a kind of dumb show through such a differential "depth of field" […].

2013, Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage, page 140:

(art) Of or relating to the Dalian surrealist technique of inducing a paranoid state in one's own mind in order to deconstruct the psychological concept of identity, such that subjectivity becomes the primary aspect of the artwork.


pen painting

pen painting (countable and uncountable, plural pen paintings)

(art) A painting technique in which the artist first grounds a canvas with white oil paint before drawing on it with blue India ink.


point-projection perspective

linear perspective
linear perspective#English


underground people

The inhabitants of Rügen believe in three kinds of Dwarfs, or underground people, the White, the Brown, and the Black, so named from the colour of their several habiliments.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 281:

Gross superstition still prevails in most parts of Nordland, particularly regarding the underground people.

1872 November 8, Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the Country, San Francisco, page 425, column 1:

(folklore) Any of the fairy folk, trolls, dwarfs, or other supernatural beings, that primarily live underground.


art epic

(art) A work of art that is similar to a traditional epic, especially in its depiction of heroic deeds and adventures.


Knielauf

(historical, art) A schema for the depiction of rapid movement found particularly in Archaic Greek and Etruscan art, in which one knee is depicted as being bent to the point of nearly touching the ground.


fill light

(film, television, photography, theater) A light that may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and capture the amount of detail typically seen by eye in average conditions.


half-relief

half-relief (countable and uncountable, plural half-reliefs)


Farmer's reducer

Farmer's reducer (countable and uncountable, plural Farmer's reducers)

(photography) A mixture of sodium thiosulfate with the bleaching agent potassium ferricyanide, used to reduce the density of a negative or gelatin silver print.


rug hooking

rug hooking (usually uncountable, plural rug hookings)

(art, textiles) An art and a craft where a rug is made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp.


Waterhouse stop

Waterhouse stop (plural Waterhouse stops)

Invented by photographer John Waterhouse in 1858.

(photography) An interchangeable diaphragm with an aperture for controlling the entry of light into a camera.


headsit

The contortionist impressed the audience with a perfect headsit during her routine.

Achieving a headsit requires years of practice and extensive spinal flexibility.

One of the most common variations of chest stand headsit is where the performer has their legs locked out straight with their feet on the floor.

2024 December 19, “Chest stand headsit with straight legs and feet on floor”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(acrobatics) An extreme backbend in which the top of the performer's head touches the buttocks; usually in a handstand or chest stand. Sometimes, a more extreme variation is done where the buttocks are positioned past the performer's head, while the lower back is on top of the head; this requires much more neck flexibility.


deep focus

(photography, film) The technique of using a large depth of field, so that the foreground, middle ground and background are all in focus.


Earth Surface Person

Earth Surface Person (plural Earth Surface People)

Earth Surface People (plural)
Earth surface person (alternative)
earth surface person (alternative)

Their tales qualify this as Earth People or Earth Surface People, for, in the long, poetic myth which is their bible, they climbed up to the earth's flat disk from her dark, underground womb.

1956, Ruth Murray Underhill, The Navajos, page 4:

Toad denounces angrily that an earth surface person should be going about here and shoots mudballs at various parts of her body (soles, hip joint, small of back, meeting of shoulder blades, hollow of head); she is lamed and felled by this witchery.

1957, Katherine Spencer, Mythology and Values, An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths, page 153:

Down where berries were reported to be, they went again, when suddenly she saw the woman's tracks. "Whose tracks are these? They are tracks of an earth surface person!" [Holy Young Woman said].

1975, Leland C. Wyman, The Mountainway of the Navajo, page 190:

Thus, the story of Changing Woman here is the story of her creation of the earth-surface people and of the things that they need in order to exist.

1984, John R. Farella, The Main Stalk, A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy, page 89:

The great Navajo chant Beauty Way deals with a fruitful coming-together of an earth-surface person - a human being - and a spirit; the Beauty Way ceremony itself, which incorporates the story, is given to the Navajo people as a consequence of that event.

1993, Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman, page 121:

Sure, people have problems when they're married; no Earth Surface Person is perfect.

2001, Rose Mitchell, Tall Woman, The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977, page 297:

The old man began the Restoration of the Earth Surface Person Upon His Return Home prayer, which describes the reuniting of a person with his home.

2003, R. A. F. McPhearson, Blackening Rite, page 22:

(folklore, Native American) A human being, specifically in cultures like the Navajo, residing on the physical Earth, as opposed to spiritual beings or deities, considered to reside in higher realms.


preclaim

en-verb

preclaim (third-person singular simple present preclaims, present participle preclaiming, simple past and past participle preclaimed)

preclaims (present singular third-person)
preclaiming (participle present)
preclaimed (participle past)
preclaimed (past)
pre-claim (alternative)

(art) To claim an adoptable in advance (before completion or auction).


preclaim

preclaims (plural)
pre-claim (alternative)

(art) Claiming an adoptable in advance (before completion or auction).


filmslide

(photography) Synonym of slide (“transparent plate bearing an image to be projected”)


color separation

en-noun

color separation (plural color separations)

(printing, graphic design) The process of breaking down a colored image into its component colors in order for it to be printed.


long-focus lens

long-focus lens (plural long-focus lenses)

(photography) A type of camera lens that has a focal length longer than the diagonal measure of the film or sensor receiving the image.


deghost

en-verb

deghost (third-person singular simple present deghosts, present participle deghosting, simple past and past participle deghosted)

deghosts (present singular third-person)
deghosting (participle present)
deghosted (participle past)
deghosted (past)

(transitive, photography) To remove a ghost image from.


soft sculpture

en-noun

soft sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural soft sculptures)

(art) A kind of three-dimensional art form incorporating supple and non-rigid materials that may be stuffed, sewn, glued, woven, etc.