- coloured liquid for writing, drawing and printing
- in ink written in ink
- different coloured inks
Extra ExamplesTopics Artb2- Allow the ink to dry.
- Be careful. The ink is still wet.
- He wrote very neatly in blue ink.
- Most people now use ballpoints rather than ink.
- The drawback of this printer is that the ink tends to smudge.
- There were several alterations in ink.
- We need to replace the ink cartridge in the printer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wet
- coloured/colored
- black
- …
- use
- write in
- apply
- …
- dry
- blot
- spot
- stain
- …
- in ink
- pen and ink
- (also inking [countable])a tattoo or tattoos (= pictures or designs marked permanently on a person's skin)
- She likes to wear clothes that show off her ink.
- He lifted up his shirt so that we could see his two new inks.
Word OriginMiddle English enke, inke, from Old French enque, via late Latin from Greek enkauston, denoting the purple ink used by Roman emperors for signatures, from enkaiein ‘burn in’.
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