etch
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I. verb
Etymology: Dutch etsen, from German ätzen to etch, corrode, from Old High German azzen to feed; akin to Old High German ezzan to eat — more at eat
Date: 1634
transitive verb
1.
a. to produce (as a pattern or design) on a hard material by eating into the material's surface (as by acid or laser beam)
b. to subject to such etching
2. to delineate or impress clearly <
scenes etched in our minds
> <pain was etched on his features
>
intransitive verb
to practice etching
• etcher noun
II. noun
Date: 1896
1. the action or effect of etching a surface
2. a chemical agent used in etching
New Collegiate Dictionary.
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etch — etch·ant; etch·e·min; etch·er; etch; mac·ro·etch; pho·to·etch; re·etch; coun·ter·etch; … English syllables
Etch — may refer to...*Etch (protocol): an open source, cross platform, multi language framework for building network services released by Cisco Systems into the Apache Software Foundation. *Etch, a character from the film Toy Story, based on the Etch A … Wikipedia
Etch — Etch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Etched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Etching}.] [D. etsen, G. [ a]tzen to feed, corrode, etch. MHG. etzen, causative of ezzen to eat, G. essen ??. See {Eat}.] 1. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
etch — [etʃ] v [Date: 1600 1700; : Dutch; Origin: etsen, from German ätzen to feed ; because originally the lines were eaten into the metal with acid] 1.) [I and T] to cut lines on a metal plate, piece of glass, stone etc to form a picture or words etch … Dictionary of contemporary English
etch´er — etch «ehch», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to engrave (a design) on metal, glass, wood, mineral, or plastic by acid or heat that burns lines into it. Filled with ink, the lines of the design will reproduce a copy on paper. 2. to engrave (metal, glass,… … Useful english dictionary
Etch — Etch, n. A variant of {Eddish}. [Obs.] Mortimer. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Etch — Etch, v. i. To practice etching; to make etchings. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
etch — 1630s, to engrave by eating away the surface of with acids, from Du. etsen, from Ger. ätzen to etch, from O.H.G. azzon cause to bite, feed, from P.Gmc. *atjanan, causative of *etanan eat (see EAT (Cf. eat)). Related: Etched; etching … Etymology dictionary
etch — index delineate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
etch — [ etʃ ] verb intransitive or transitive to make marks on a hard surface by cutting into it a. to use acid to make marks on a metal surface in order to make a picture called an etching … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
etch — vb incise, engrave, Carve, chisel, sculpture, sculpt, sculp … New Dictionary of Synonyms
