Etch meaning

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To impress or delineate clearly.

A landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that are etched against the sky.

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To engage in etching.
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To make (a drawing, design, etc.) on metal, glass, etc. by the action of an acid, esp. by coating the surface with wax and letting acid eat into the lines or areas laid bare with a special needle.
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To prepare (a metal plate, glass, etc.) in this way, for use in printing such drawings or designs.
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To engrave using a laser.
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To depict or impress sharply and distinctly.
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To make etchings.
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To create a design in a material by digging out the material. The circuit designs on printed circuit boards and chips are etched by acid. See chip and printed circuit board.
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To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
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To engrave a surface.
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(figuratively) To make a lasting impression.

The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

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Obsolete form of eddish.

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Origin of etch

  • Dutch etsen from German ätzen from Middle High German etzen from Old High German ezzen to eat ed- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Germanic, cognate with Dutch ets.
    From Wiktionary

Etch Sentence Examples

  • The acid used to etch the surface has darkened the parts richest in copper, while those richest in tin remained white.

  • There are a few materials you'll need to etch on glass both successfully and safely.

  • In fact the uniformity of brass and bell-metal is only superficial; if we adopt the methods described in the article Metallography, and if, after polishing a plane face on a bit of gun-metal, we etch away the surface layer and examine the new surface with a lens or a microscope, we find a complex pattern of at least two materials.

  • If you have anti-reflective coating on your lens, remove scratches with Armour Etch.

  • Etch designs in the pot and set aside to dry.

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