etching
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.
an impression, as on paper, taken from an etched plate.
the design so produced.
a metal plate bearing such a design.
Origin of etching
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How to use etching in a sentence
The realistic depictions are etchings, while the simpler, more colorful pictures are monoprints.
In the galleries: Artists examine the divide between people and their surroundings | Mark Jenkins | May 14, 2021 | Washington PostOne pair, possibly a set of self-portraits, features the same etching in both, but with curved shapes in four bright colors atop the second one.
In the galleries: Artists examine the divide between people and their surroundings | Mark Jenkins | May 14, 2021 | Washington PostThe two swing-out windows in the kitchen appear to have some etching or scratching that has gotten worse.
Cloudy double-pane windows are to be expected with time | Jeanne Huber | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe etching or scratch-like marks you see are caused by a failure of a low-e coating that was applied to the glass, Weaver said.
Cloudy double-pane windows are to be expected with time | Jeanne Huber | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostApply window treatments such as etching and inexpensive sticker grids.
A concise guide to birding in your own backyard | Erin E. Williams | December 11, 2020 | Washington Post
He had customized his new gun by etching in the words “better off this way” and “my ELF weapon.”
Inside the Washington Navy Yard’s Building 197 During Alexis’s Rampage | Michael Daly | September 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCelluloid is to Dean what oil paint is to Titian or etching to Whistler.
Tacita Dean: One of Today’s 10 Most Important Artists | Blake Gopnik | June 5, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTStranger still, artist Mark Evans originally created the leather etching for Campbell herself, to benefit her own charity.
The Pablo Picasso etching had stalled at a bid of $5,400, barely above its low estimate.
That day, I walked by the Vietnam Memorial and people were etching names on to front pages of newspapers.
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThe two walked along under the trees, which cast etching-like shadows in the broad moonlight, and neither talked much.
The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins FreemanThe edge of the tray or plate may be decorated either by piercing, embossing, etching, or enameling.
Copper Work | Augustus F. RoseIts drooping knotted threads also make a pretty etching upon the winter snow.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsIt is advantageous to repeat the mopping-on process at intervals during the etching.
A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing | Bernard D. Bolas
British Dictionary definitions for etching
/ (ˈɛtʃɪŋ) /
the art, act, or process of preparing etched surfaces or of printing designs from them
an etched plate
an impression made from an etched plate
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for etching
An artistic print made from a plate on which the artist has etched a design with acid. (Compare engraving.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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