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Etching   /ˈɛtʃɪŋ/   Listen
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



... weed, especially the blue or purple variety. Its drooping knotted threads also make a pretty etching upon the ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs
... am not." As if it absorbed her, and no one could have said that it did not, for she kept house beautifully, Nellie straightened an etching; the quietly she walked out ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... clear enough, if we think of actual examples. In an actual landscape we see a long white road, lost suddenly on the hill-verge. That is the matter of one of the etchings of M. Alphonse Legros: only, in this etching, it is informed by an indwelling solemnity of expression, seen upon it or half-seen, within the limits of an exceptional moment, or caught from his own mood perhaps, but which he maintains as the very essence of the thing, throughout his work. Sometimes a momentary ...
— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater
... slant-wise, was a carved black oak writing-table, a long row of photographs stuck up against the back shelf of it. The walls were hung with a set of William Nicolson's prints, strong, dark, distinct, slightly sinister in effect; a fine etching of Jean Francois Millet's Gleaners; and, in noticeable contrast to this last, a mezzotint of Romney's picture of Lady Hamilton spinning. Upon the book-table were a silver ash-tray and cigarette-box. The air was unquestionably impregnated ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet
... intimate one, but Tom's tricky imagination tormented him with one of still nearer personal association. He saw her in his own house, before his own fireside, a baby clinging to her skirt. Then, resolutely, he put the mental etching behind him. She loved his friend Beresford, a man out of a thousand, and of course he loved her. Had he not seen her go straight to his arms after her horrible ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine


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