I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pencil/ink/charcoal etc drawing (= done using a pencil, ink etc )
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I like to do a few pencil drawings when I go away anywhere.
ink blots
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ink blots
ink pad
invisible ink
pen and ink
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a pen and ink drawing
printing ink
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Printing in black tends to be the least expensive as it does not mean that the machinery needs cleaning of black ink .
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Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
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Liz had a calendar and she crossed off the days in black ink .
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No one said anything; we simply kept marking the pages with black ink .
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And Harry's name, written in black anonymous ink ..
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If a mass of black ink has landed on the page, start breaking up that paragraph.
indelible
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All voters' hands will be dyed with indelible ink , and both the vote and the count will be conducted locally.
indian
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Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
invisible
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A newly created invisible ink makes the animals disappear with the heat of your body.
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Vietcong couriers slipped into Saigon to pick up his reports, which he wrote in invisible ink made from starch.
■ NOUN
blot
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Right: Victor Hugo, ink blot , about 1855.
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This ink blot , due to be exhibited, dates from Hugo's eighteen year-long political exile on the island of Jersey.
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I appeared twice like an ink blot on a folded sheet of paper: a passive, meaningless blur.
cartridge
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The ink cartridge is an open-plan affair, with four ink tanks feeding to a head built into the carrier.
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Switching between black and color printing requires changing ink cartridges .
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This is quite an expensive printer to run, with the integral head and ink cartridges costing around £30 each.
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By simply placing this in the ink cartridge bay and installing the software provided, your printer is converted into a scanner.
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On-screen guidelines are given for changing the ink cartridge , which does 60 pages at a cost of around 2.5 pence each.
drawing
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Most of them might more accurately be described as tinted pen and ink drawings than watercolours in the traditional sense.
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They performed against a backdrop resembling a pen and ink drawing on white paper.
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The pen and ink drawings of Mike Wilks may never be the same again.
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Her pen and ink drawings have been used to illustrate local regional magazines and she has had several commissions.
pen
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The pens can be fibre-tip, ball-point or ink pens.
printing
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The blank spaces become wet and therefore reject the printing ink .
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Restrictions on the use of paper and printing ink resulted in canned goods carrying only half-labels.
■ VERB
use
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Printing in several colours is expensive, but using a single colour ink , not necessarily black, is much less so.
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So get those pens and paper ready. Use red ink .
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Blind emboss a raised impression made without using ink or foil.
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It helps to make the message prominent by using red ink or something similar that catches the eye. 5.
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They use ink as opposed to the plastic toner used by lasers.
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Size markers are drawn on the gel using radioactive ink .
write
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It was written in bright red ink .
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Their bonds might as well have been written with disappearing ink .
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Under the same date, neatly inscribed in copperplate writing with sepia ink , was the name Sarah Byrne.
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Be-side their names he wrote curses in red ink .
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One of the big changes we had to cope with, was learning to write with pen and ink .
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Vietcong couriers slipped into Saigon to pick up his reports, which he wrote in invisible ink made from starch.
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And Harry's name, written in black anonymous ink ..
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It was a letter written in blue ink .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bleed red ink
indelible ink/pencil/marker etc
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All voters' hands will be dyed with indelible ink, and both the vote and the count will be conducted locally.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Always choose a permanent ink rather than buying the cheapest you can find.
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But why do I waste ink telling you this?
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Carkesse believed that madmen vent their rage by words on air, poets by ink on paper.
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He worked on a Diners Club card, removing the ink on the raised letters with a Q-tip doused in polyester resin.
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Her name, Beulah, is printed in green ink on a heart-shaped name tag.
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Printing in black tends to be the least expensive as it does not mean that the machinery needs cleaning of black ink .
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There being no ink left in the pen, Pooley had pierced the points of his speculation through with defunct matchsticks.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
indelible ink/pencil/marker etc
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All voters' hands will be dyed with indelible ink, and both the vote and the count will be conducted locally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The number was inked on the side of his helmet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However ferociously we ink over our first thoughts, history finds a way of reading them.
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Some people cut and paste on the computer or simply ink in arrows: You can also use columns for your list.