half-tone block
Preserved but no longer current.
A typographic printing- block for illustrations, produced by photo- graphing on to a prepared plate through a screen or grating which breaks up the picture of the object to be reproduced into small dots of varying intensity, thus giving the lights and shades, or tones.
Khối in ảnh được tạo bằng cách chụp ảnh qua một màn hình
Machine-translated — suggest a fix
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “half-tone block” mean?
A typographic printing- block for illustrations, produced by photo- graphing on to a prepared plate through a screen or grating which breaks up the picture of the object to be reproduced into small dots of varying intensity, thus giving the lights and shades, or tones.
Is “half-tone block” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.