Etch
[etʃ] or [ɛtʃ]
Definition
(verb.) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons.
(verb.) make an etching of; 'He etched her image into the surface'.
(verb.) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible; 'a face etched with pain'; 'the leafless branches etched against the sky'.
Typist: Murray--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A variant of Eddish.
(v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
(v. t.) To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
(v. t.) To sketch; to delineate.
(v. i.) To practice etching; to make etchings.
Edited by Claudette
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Engrave (by corrosion of an acid).
Typed by Eugenia
Definition
v.t. or v.i. to make designs on metal glass &c. by eating out the lines with an acid.—ns. Etch′er one who etches; Etch′ing the act or art of etching or engraving: the impression from an etched plate; Etch′ing-ground the coating of wax or varnish on a plate prepared for etching; Etch′ing-need′le a fine-pointed steel instrument used in etching.
Checker: Wilbur
Examples
- The method he adopted of doing so was to cover a copper plate with varnish or wax, and to etch a design through the covering. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This plate is etched--a flat proof, so called, is pulled on a hand press--and it is then taken up by the re-etcher. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Trade-mark etched. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A third specimen was an impression on paper, _printed from a photograph on metal_, the picture having been etched into the plate by nitric acid, and then printed from. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When the operation is reversed, and only the _darks_ are etched in _intaglio_, to be filled with ink, as in copper-plate engraving, it is called photo-gravure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The etched disc is then electrotyped to form a matrix, and from this electrotype hard rubber duplicates of the original record are molded, which are capable of giving 1,000 reproductions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An etching of a child playing with a Blenheim spaniel happened to flutter to the floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Two years thereafter, Mr. Emile Berliner of Washington had invented the _gramophone_, which consists in etching on a metallic plate the record of voice waves. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He has termed his invention, the art of etching the human voice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The re-etcher is the artist of the etching room. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Smaller developments of lights are worked out by careful manipulation of the etching fluid with small sable brushes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Unique Rembrandt etching. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When the picture is sufficiently impressed, he etches it into the plate by means of bichloride of platinum. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The record plate is then subjected to a particularly constituted acid bath, which, entering the groove or grooves formed by the stylus, cuts or etches the same into the plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Olivier