Etching Definition

ĕchĭng
etchings
noun
etchings
The art or act of one who etches.
Webster's New World
The art of preparing etched plates, especially metal plates, from which designs and pictures are printed.
American Heritage
An etched plate, drawing, or design.
Webster's New World
A print made from an etched surface.
Webster's New World
(countable) The image created by this process.
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verb

Present participle of etch.

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Other Word Forms of Etching

Noun

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.

  • Two facts are established - namely, that the Eskimo lived formerly farther south on the Atlantic coast, and that, aboriginally, they were not specially adept in carving and etching.

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GNGING

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