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Etching

noun

1.

An impression made from an etched plate.

2.

An etched plate made with the use of acid.

3.

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them. Synonym: engraving.

Etch

verb

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

1.

Make an etching of.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

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"Etching" Quotes from Famous Books

... producing an etched plate. The plate is coated with wax, and the design traced through as in common etching. It is then placed in a bath and is connected to the positive terminal from a generator, whose negative is immersed in the same bath, so that the metal is dissolved by electrolytic action. By attaching to the ...

— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... young days, look you, there are moments of real inspiration, when some one whispers in the ear and guides the hand; a lightness of touch, the happy audacity of the beginner, a wealth of daring never met with again. Would you believe that I have tried ten times to reproduce that in etching ...

— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin

... she visited her friends, the Sismondis, and in Turin received a call from Silvio Pellico, martyr to Italian liberty. "He is of low stature and slightly made, a sort of etching of a man with delicate and symmetrical features, just enough body to gravitate and keep the spirit from its natural upward flight—a ...

— Daughters of the Puritans - A Group of Brief Biographies • Seth Curtis Beach

... his mind, an etching that he had seen in Paris in a shop window—had seen and pondered over. "Entombed" was written underneath it, and it showed a solitary miner, on whom the awful trap has fallen, lifting his arms to his face in a last cry against the universe ...

— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... recreation. The wolf skin will one day give place to a painting of the chase, the gaudy calendars to better things, when prosperity comes. But now these crude things speak for the pioneer period of the man, and therefore they are the right things for the moment. How absurd would be the refined etching and the delicate water-color on these clay walls, even ...

— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe

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