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Synonyms for ink

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : ingk
Phonetic Transcription : ɪŋk

Top 10 synonyms for ink
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Définition of ink

Origin :
  • "the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], mid-13c., from Old French enque "dark writing fluid" (11c.), from Late Latin encaustum, from Greek enkauston "purple or red ink," used by the Roman emperors to sign documents, originally a neuter adjective form of enkaustos "burned in," from stem of enkaiein "to burn in," from en- "in" + kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). The word is from a Greek method of applying colored wax and fixing it with heat. The Old English word for it was simply blæc, literally "black." Ink-blot test attested from 1928.
  • As in mark : noun blemish; character
  • As in notoriety : noun reputation
  • As in publicity : noun promotion of something, someone
  • As in signature : noun signing of name
  • As in infamousness : noun notoriety
  • As in notoriousness : noun notoriety
  • As in coffee : noun hot beverage made from beans of a tree
  • As in mark : verb blemish, stain
  • As in autograph : verb write signature
  • As in sign : verb write name
  • As in subscribe : verb pay for use; contribute
  • As in subscribe : verb agree
  • As in write : verb put language down on paper
  • As in blacken : verb darken
  • As in undersign : verb sign
  • As in contract : verb come to terms
  • As in employ : verb give money in exchange for work performed
  • As in engage : verb hire for job, use
  • As in hire : verb commission for responsibility, use
Example sentences :
  • There is a reference to “pen and ink” in the 3d Epistle of John xiii.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens » by Henry Bore
  • Strange, that the mere identity of paper and ink should be so powerful.
  • Extract from : « A Book of Autographs » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • You could see them as plain as if they was painted on the moon with ink.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • There was paper, there was ink and there was a pen with a new nib in it, and blotting paper!
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • But it is time to lay down my pen, since my ink runs nothing but gall.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • But I must carry down your pen and ink: and that this moment.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • When it fails, it is in consequence of some peculiarity in the composition of the ink.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • And he produced a little case in which there were pen and ink.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • But the night was black as ink, the darkness had submerged the horizon.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • The darkness was like ink, and there was not a sound, a breath; the silence was complete.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Antonyms for ink

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