Etching

What do we mean by etching?

The art of preparing etched plates, especially metal plates, from which designs and pictures are printed. noun

A design etched on a plate. noun

An impression made from an etched plate. noun

A process of engraving in which the lines are produced by the action of an acid or mordant instead of by a burin. noun

An impression taken from an etched plate. noun

A line etched, or appearing as if etched. noun

In photography, a plate, as of copper, coated with a substance sensitive to light, which after exposure and development is subjected to the dissolving action of a chemical, such as nitric acid, which attacks the bare metal. noun

The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See etch, v. t. noun

A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching. noun

An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate. noun

Markings produced on the face of a crystal by the action of an appropriate solvent. They have usually a definite form, and are important as revealing the molecular structure. noun

A sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching. noun

A stitch used outline embroidery. noun

The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. noun

The image created by this process. noun

Present participle of etch. verb

An etched plate made with the use of acid noun

An impression made from an etched plate noun

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them noun

To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.

To engrave a surface.

To make a lasting impression.

To sketch; to delineate.

(verb): To slowly walk into a cold pool or sea with your arms up, while trying to avoid being splashed and getting your torso wet. Usually goosebumps are inevitable. Urban Dictionary

Acid Etch bath is an acidic solution used by graff writers in mops and other assorted markers to create a handstyle on a glass surface, in which the acid eats into the window, making that handstyle/tag unbuffable. Urban Dictionary

A word used to describe anything scary or weird, etc. Used commonly by teenagers. Urban Dictionary

To drink yourself retarded, not of your own doing. Urban Dictionary

1 dodgy, sketchy, scary. 2 freekishly or scarily good. Background - developed from sketchy on the northern beaches of sydney. Urban Dictionary

A regular CrossFatter who’d go the end of the world for a cwtch, a man that falls in love very easy but falls for a mortgage even easier. His favourite tattoos are his eye hand or Adam Sandler on his arm! Probably owns a pick up to make up for his limp cute cock, but all in all top man with tits! Urban Dictionary

To be wasted or just really drunk/ stoned Urban Dictionary

Tall, attractive, green-eyed boy that comes up in your best friends dreams. Urban Dictionary

Bad, horrible, not cool, homosexual. Urban Dictionary

Something that is seriously wrong that like soils your mind. Or something that is said that you dont want to think about. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to etching:
etching, fetching, retching, itching.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word etching:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe etching:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective etching:
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Consonant match to etching:
itching, i ching, ichang, ah ching, ah chung, h ing, ho ching, ho chung, hou ching, hu ching.

Words that sound like etching:
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