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Etch

verb

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

Make an etching of.

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

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

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

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

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"Etch" Quotes from Famous Books

... whose inner bottom, sketch'd In pride of chubby grace, Some rude engraver's hand had etch'd ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various

... botanical garden with the great Boerhaave, studied the microscope at Delft under Leuwenhoek, became intimate with the military engineer Coehorn, talked with Schynvoet of architecture, and learned to etch from Schonebeck. An impression of a plate made by him, of Christianity victorious over ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... sunsets, the moonrises, by a most original kind of etching. Taking up a bit of stray notepaper, he would hold it over a lighted candle, moving the paper about gently till it was cloudily smoked over, and then utilizing the darker smears for clouds, shadows, water, or what not, would etch with a dry pen the forms of lights on cloud and palace, on bridge or gondola, on the vague and dreamy surface he had produced. My own passionate longing to see Venice dates from those delightful, well-remembered evenings ...

— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting

... ask what really does constitute the "Painter-Etcher" "all round," as Piker has it?—for, of these three gentlemen who have so markedly distinguished themselves in that character, two certainly are not painters—and one doesn't etch! ...

— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler

... man's kindly eye. The fruit minded us of sunlit vines, and the careless rapture of the South. To me the situation was one of rare charm. She ate daintily, and as we talked, I studied her face as if I would etch it ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

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