cut, corrode (with an acid); engrave, carve out (with an acid); impress clearly (figurative or literal)
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Etch Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
(v. t.)
To sketch; to delineate.
To sketch; to delineate.
(v. t.)
To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
(v. i.)
To practice etching; to make etchings.
To practice etching; to make etchings.
(n.)
A variant of Eddish.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA variant of Eddish.
etch
\etch\, v. i. to practice etching; to make etchings.
etch
\etch\ (?), n. a variant of eddish. [obs.]
etch
\etch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. etched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. etching.] [d. etsen, g. ?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 means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
note: the plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the lines thus laid bare.
2. to subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. i was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. amerton.
3. to sketch; to delineate. [r.] there are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.
Verb
1. make an etching of
(hypernym) print
(hyponym) aquatint
(entail) corrode, rust
(derivation) etcher
(classification) art, artistic creation, artistic production
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Etch Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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 Sketch
- Etch, the codename for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (itself named after the Toy Story character)
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