Synonyms for inked
- active
- at it
- at work
- busy
- engaged
- hired
- in a job
- in collar
- in harness
- in place
- laboring
- occupied
- on board
- on duty
- on the job
- on the payroll
- operating
- plugging away
- retained
- selected
- signed
- working
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR INKED
After the type had been inked, a sheet of paper was laid on it.
It is also, of course, used for drawings which are afterwards "inked in."
The blocks are inked with rollers as in letter-press printing.
Then it must be washed with a wet sponge, after which it is inked.
Then the stencil had to be taken from the roller that the latter might be inked again.
There are two ways in which the map may be finished, inked, or traced.
The inked design on the paper transfers itself to the earthenware.
The type is set in a cylinder that is covered by an inked ribbon.
It must first be carefully outlined in pencil and then inked in.
When the whole of the plate has been so inked, the impression is pulled.
WORD ORIGIN
"the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], mid-13c., from Old French enque "dark writing fluid" (11c.), from Late Latin encaustum, from Greek enkauston "purple or red ink," used by the Roman emperors to sign documents, originally a neuter adjective form of enkaustos "burned in," from stem of enkaiein "to burn in," from en- "in" + kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). The word is from a Greek method of applying colored wax and fixing it with heat. The Old English word for it was simply blæc, literally "black." Ink-blot test attested from 1928.