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Etching definition

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An etched plate, drawing, or design.
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The art of preparing etched plates, especially metal plates, from which designs and pictures are printed.
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A design etched on a plate.
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An impression made from an etched plate.
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The art or act of one who etches.
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A print made from an etched surface.
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(uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
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(countable) The image created by this process.
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Present participle of etch.
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Singular:
etching
Plural:
etchings

Etching Sentence Examples

  • In the 17th and 18th centuries the processes of scratching, engraving and etching were brought to great perfection.

  • The etching primer is followed by a coat of standard primer.

  • He studied etching at Central St Martins School of Art and became a full time printmaker in 1991.

  • Its most important property is that it rapidly attacks glass, reacting with the silica of the glass to form gaseous silicon fluoride, and consequently it is used for etching.

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