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–noun

1.	the act or process of making designs or pictures on a metal plate, glass, etc., by the corrosive action of an acid instead of by a burin.

2.	an impression, as on paper, taken from an etched plate.

3.	the design so produced.

4.	a metal plate bearing such a design.

[Origin: 1625–35; etch + -ing¹

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etch Audio Help   (ěch) Pronunciation Key
v.   etched, etch·ing, etch·es

v.   tr.

1. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid.
2. To make or create by this method: etch a design on glass.
To impress, delineate, or imprint clearly: a landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that were etched against the winter sky.

v. intr.
To engage in etching.

[Dutch etsen, from German ätzen, from Middle High German etzen, from Old High German ezzen, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

etch'er n.

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etch·ing Audio Help (ěch'ĭng) Pronunciation Key
n.

The art of preparing etched plates, especially metal plates, from which designs and pictures are printed.
A design etched on a plate.
An impression made from an etched plate.

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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 [syn: engraving]

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
etching

An artistic print made from a plate on which the artist has etched a design with acid. (Compare engraving.)

[Chapter:] Fine Arts

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Etching

Etch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Etched; p. pr. & vb. n. Etching.] [D. etsen, G. ["a]tzen to feed, corrode, etch. MHG. etzen, causative of ezzen to eat, G. essen ??. See Eat.]

1. 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.

Note: The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the lines thus laid bare.

2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. --Hamerton.

3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.]

There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. --Locke.

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