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Etch

verb

(past & past part. etched; pres. part. etching)

Make an etching of.

Cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible. "The leafless branches etched against the sky"

Carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block. Synonym: engrave.

Carve or cut a design or letters into. Synonym: engrave.

Selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons.

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"Etch" Quotes from Famous Books

... cotton cloth between two supports, and after plunging the file into nitric acid, use the stretched cloth to wipe off the acid. The object is to remove the acid from the ridges of the file, so the acid will only eat out or etch the deep portions between the ridges, and not ...

— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... demonstration of the derivation of the name from a compound Sanskrit word, signifying "Diamond City." And the document concludes with a characteristic explosion of impatience, at once critical, royal, and anecdotal: "Ah! what the Romanization of American system that P'etch' abury will be! Will whole human learned world become the pupil of their corrupted Siamese teachers? It is very far from correctness. Why they did not look in journal of Royal Asiatic Society, where several words of Sanskrit and Pali were published continually? Their Siamese priestly teachers ...

— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens

... for the Bible of Amiens, curiously enough, failed in the engraving; and I shall probably have to etch it myself. It will be issued with the fourth, in the full-size edition ...

— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... Indians of Virginia, says: "Of this shell they also make round tablets of about 4 inches in diameter, which they polish as smooth as the other, and sometimes they etch or grave thereon circles, stars, a half-moon, or any other figure suitable to their fancy." [Footnote: Hist. ...

— The Problem of Ohio Mounds • Cyrus Thomas

Words linked to "Etch" : etcher, rust, engrave, inscribe, corrode, aquatint, benday, chip at, stipple, artistic creation, grave, artistic production, print, scratch, carve, dissolve, art, show, etching