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Etching   /ˈɛtʃɪŋ/   Listen
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



... grief-stricken terror that quaked and burned in his soul, etching unforgettable scars, the recollection of his unsteady spurts of penance rose to mock him with their artificiality. His remorse had been but a pale, theatric spree! And now in this forgetful winter of his ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... (1650), shows the genesis of the coffee house of western Europe about the time it still partook of some of the tavern characteristics. Coffee is being served to a group in the foreground. It is believed to be the oldest existing picture of a coffee house. The illustration is after the etching by J. Beauvarlet in the ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... worked in the finest black silk procurable, in order more closely to imitate etching. It is worked in point Russe and scallop stitch; the dark shaded scallops are worked in button-hole scallop stitch, the stitches being taken very closely together, but not raised by the usual method of placing ...
— Beeton's Book of Needlework • Isabella Beeton
... and saw that it was a wonderfully perfect etching of a head by Henner—a first impression, beyond a doubt. It was a girl's head, half life size, almost in profile, white against the dark rain of her hair, which covered her shoulders and bust and blackened all the rest of the picture. The haunting melancholy, the youth, ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... between 1500 and 1650, are the reverse of the opinion commonly entertained. I was conversing on this subject with a friend, when the servant, a worthy and sensible woman, coming in, I placed before her two engravings, the one a pinky-coloured plate of the day, the other a masterly etching by Salvator Rosa from one of his own pictures. On pressing her to tell us, which she preferred, after a little blushing and flutter of feeling, she replied "Why, that, Sir, to be sure! (pointing to the ware from the Fleet-street print shops);—it's ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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