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Half-tone   Listen
noun
Half-tone, Half tone  n.  
1.
(Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
2.
(Music) A half step.
3.
A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
4.
The etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration.
Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving.






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"Half-tone" Quotes from Famous Books



... practically the same as the cost of printing from type. If the drawings are made in water color, "wash" or oil, or if they contain fine crayon or pencil shadings, the reproductions must be made from half-tone plates. These cost from twelve cents to twenty cents a square inch, with a minimum rate that usually is equivalent to the cost of ten square inches. Half-tones, however, can be printed only on an enamel or other smooth-surface paper, and ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous

... have come near to sing the perfect song And only by a half-tone lost the key, There is the potent sorrow, there the grief, The pale, sad staring of ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... fell lustily upon a popular two-step at this moment, and an usher thrust a bundle of campaign leaflets into Graves's hands. One of these pamphlets contained a half-tone portrait of Shelby, with an account of his career and a few phrases from the more noteworthy of his public addresses. Graves gave these latter a caustic scrutiny, and read aloud one of ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... There was a half-tone lowering of the voice as Smith pronounced the name, which was not lost on Champers, whose business was to catch men at ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

... T. Troland of Harvard tells us, "are built up on the same principle as the ordinary 'half-tone' engravings; that is, they are made up of minute dottings or stripplings far too small to be detected by the eye. . . . The sensitiveness of the retina is so great that a visual sensation can be produced by relatively few Quanta of the right kind of light." Through a master's ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... of his Alan Breck Overture. For a moment, his lips had curled into a complacent little smile; the next minute, he had sucked in his breath sharply between his clenched teeth. In her excitement, Cicely had mistaken her distance; she had flatted by a full half-tone the final upper note, reducing the tonal climax of the overture to the ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray

... of her own, to which no discernible covert-way led, for it was not conspicuous enough to obtain mention in the little gratis guide which the hotel furnished— a pamphlet on coated paper filled with half-tone engravings, and half-extravagant eulogies of what it proclaimed to be, an earthly paradise, with the rates by the day or week given on the cover page to show on what terms ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr

... covered with mast, yard and sail. It was very snug from the outward aspect, but we soon found that there were two objections to the "Sarcophagus," as it was named. There was very little light except a ghastly blue half-tone filtering through the snow, and the place was not over warm, surrounded by walls at a much lower temperature than that of ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... December Leslie's Illustrated Weekly published half-tone reproductions of two photographs which were taken in Sagua. One was a picture of the bodies of six Cuban pacificos lying on their backs, with their arms and legs bound and their bodies showing mutilation by machetes, and their faces pounded and ...
— Cuba in War Time • Richard Harding Davis

... Cattleman said no more for a moment, but puffed at his cob pipe in thought and silence. I had no notion of involving myself in any combat of morals or theology, so I did not invade his mood. At last I suggested in a half-tone of inoffensive sympathy that the West was no doubt ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis



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