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etching en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
  2. (countable) The image created by this process.
    • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]." 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Forms

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etchings Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

engraving

Deriveds

etching scribe · abdominal etching · photoetching · electroetching · someone's etchings · cryoetching

Hypernyms

intaglio

Hyponyms

aquatint · mezzotint

Translations (31)

pl akwaforta (image created by this process) · tr gravür (art of producing an image) · de Radierung (art of producing an image) · it acquaforte (image created by this process) · uk офо́рт (image created by this process) · fr eau-forte (image created by this process) · es aguafuerte (art of producing an image) · fi etsaus (art of producing an image) · cs lept (image created by this process) · ro acvaforte (art of producing an image) · fr gravure (art of producing an image) · be афо́рт (image created by this process) · ru офорт (art of producing an image) · bg гравюра (image created by this process) · it acquaforte (art of producing an image) · pl akwaforta (art of producing an image) · uk офо́рт (art of producing an image) · cs lept (art of producing an image) · he תַּחְרִיט (art of producing an image) · fr eau-forte (art of producing an image) · ro acvaforte (image created by this process) · nl ets (art of producing an image) · de Ätzradierung (art of producing an image) · ca aiguafort (image created by this process) · pl trawienie (art of producing an image) · tr gravür (image created by this process) · ca aiguafort (art of producing an image) · fr estampe (image created by this process) · de Radierung (image created by this process) · hi निक्षारण (art of producing an image) · be афо́рт (art of producing an image)

etching en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of etch
    form of etch