'Etching' definitions:
Definition of 'etching'
From: WordNet
noun
An impression made from an etched plate
noun
An etched plate made with the use of acid
noun
Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them [syn: engraving, etching]
Definition of 'Etching'
From: GCIDE
- Etching \Etch"ing\, n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate. [1913 Webster]
- Etching figures (Min.), 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.
- Etching needle, a sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching.
- Etching stitch (Needlework), a stitch used outline embroidery. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Etching'
From: GCIDE
- Etch \Etch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Etched; p. pr. & vb. n. Etching.] [D. etsen, G. [aum]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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. [1913 Webster]
- I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. --Hamerton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'etching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract art,
- aquatint,
- art,
- art form,
- artist,
- arts and crafts,
- arts of design,
- autolithograph,
- block,
- block print,
- burr,
- calligraphy,
- cave art,
- ceramics,
- cerography,
- chalcography,
- chiseling,
- chromolithograph,
- color print,
- copperplate,
- copperplate print,
- crayon engraving,
- cribbling,
- cross-hatching,
- cut,
- decoration,
- demitint,
- design,
- designing,
- drypoint,
- engravement,
- engraving,
- etch,
- fine arts,
- folk art,
- gem-engraving,
- glass-cutting,
- glyptic,
- graphic arts,
- graphotype,
- graving,
- half tint,
- hatching,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- incision,
- inscript,
- inscription,
- intaglio,
- line,
- lining,
- linoleum-block print,
- lithograph,
- marking,
- metal cut,
- mezzotint,
- negative,
- photoengraving,
- photography,
- plastic art,
- plate engraving,
- primitive art,
- print,
- pyrogravure,
- relief method,
- rubber-block print,
- score,
- scoring,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- sculpture,
- slash,
- slashing,
- steel engraving,
- stipple,
- stippling,
- the arts,
- tint,
- tooling,
- type-cutting,
- vignette,
- wood engraving,
- woodblock,
- woodburning,
- woodcut,
- woodprint,
- xylograph,
- zincography