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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

... and a ragged shepherd, driving a meagre straggling flock, whom we stopped to ask our way of, was a perfect type of pastoral, weather-beaten misery. He was precisely the shepherd for the foreground of a scratchy etching. There were faint odours of spring in the air, and the grass here and there was streaked with great patches of daisies; but it was spring with a foreknowledge of autumn, a day to be enjoyed with a substrain of sadness, the foreboding of regret, a day somehow to ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... this!" she suddenly cried. "Here's an etching, a genuine etching, a beautiful thing and all covered with dust. Why, the one I bought for a hundred and fifty dollars in Holland last year isn't half as good. Why, whoever had it put ...

— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... creation to the ingenuity and labor of one's friends—as hand-painted screens or china, embroidered work, or, if one is artistic, a painting or etching—are peculiarly complimentary wedding gifts. ...

— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton

... more or less success. Anthony Kolberg painted Chopin in 1848-49. Kleczynski reproduces it; it is mature in expression. The Clesinger head I have seen at Pere la Chaise. It is mediocre and lifeless. Kwiatowski has caught some of the Chopin spirit in the etching that may be found in volume one of Niecks' biography. The Winterhalter portrait in Mr. Hadow's volume is too Hebraic, and the Graefle is a trifle ghastly. It is the dead Chopin, but the nose is that of a predaceous bird, painfully aquiline. The "Echo Muzyczne" Warsaw, of October ...

— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

... were deepening. Already the trunks of the trees on the far bank of the river were merging into a dull mass. The play of sunlight and shadow in the nearer forest was an etching of white and black. The mellow sudden Western night was dropping glamorous mantle over the familiar scene, softening the crudeness of the camp and exalting the dying round of the forest's fight for solitude. The sand of the grade gleamed with evening tint of ochre. The network ...

— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

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