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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

... who remains dim throughout is the artist, Franklin Booth, Dreiser's host and companion on the long motor ride from New York to Indiana, and the maker of the book's excellent pictures. One gets a brilliant etching of Booth's father, and scarcely less vivid portraits of Speed, the chauffeur; of various persons encountered on the way, and of friends and relatives dredged up out of the abyss of the past. But of Booth one learns little save that he is ...

— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

... 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 were ...

— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe

... There is an etching by Salvator Rosa, which seems so plainly to tell the story of the wandering artist's captivity, that it merits a particular description. In the midst of wild, rocky scenery, appears a group of banditti, armed at all points, and with all sorts of arms; they are lying in careless attitudes, ...

— Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) • Shearjashub Spooner

... and panegyrics, seems dim indeed and visionary, when compared with some sharply indented description by a brilliant literary craftsman. It has the vagueness of a photograph produced by superimposing many negatives of the same face one upon the other. It lacks the pungent piquancy of an etching. Yet this is what we must abide by; for this is spiritually and ...

— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... model?' shouted Trevor at the top of his voice; 'I should think so! Such beggars as he are not to be met with every day. A trouvaille, mon cher; a living Velasquez! My stars! what an etching Rembrandt would have ...

— Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories • Oscar Wilde

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