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# woodcut

«woodcut» in Mova's school dictionary: **A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (woodcuts)

### meaning for a pupil

A picture printed from a block of wood that has had a design cut into it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcut/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a printed picture such as a sign, a map or a strange sight shown on a sheet of paper

### examples

- The printer made a woodcut of a bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcut/#x1)
- The sheet showed a woodcut of a comet over the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcut/#x2)
- We pressed the inked block onto paper to make a woodcut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcut/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woodcut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.