2. Noun. loan translation ¹
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Definition of Calquing
1. calque [v] - See also: calque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calquing
Literary usage of Calquing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Drawing Book: A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for by John Gadsby Chapman (1858)
"As far as possible, recourse to it should therefore be avoided, by making out
the outline on a separate sheet of paper, and transferring or calquing it in ..."
2. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"... the quality of producing heat Calorimeter, an instrument to measure the heat
given out by a body in cooling by the quantity of ice it melts calquing, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"It is half a league in height towards the land, and so steep that there is no
approaching it on that side. calquing, or CALKING, a term used in painting, ..."
4. Handbook of Young Artists and Amateurs in Oilpainting: Being Chiefly a by Laughton Osborn, Pierre Louis Bouvier (1849)
"C. CALKING or calquing (from the Fr. verb, Calquer). See Chap, iv., Part III., of
the Handbook. ..."
5. A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary: Or, Alphabetical Explanation of ...by Charles James by Charles James (1805)
"... by which means all the outlines "ill be transferred to the paper or plate, &c.
calquing, ? the art of tracing The nature of the ground must also ..."
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