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Etch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid.

v. To make or create by this method: etch a design on glass.

v. To impress, delineate, or imprint clearly: a landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that were etched against the winter sky.

verb-intransitive. To engage in etching.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. 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.

v. To engrave a surface.

v. To make a lasting impression.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A variant of eddish.

v. 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.

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

v. To sketch; to delineate.

verb-intransitive. To practice etching; to make etchings.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To cut or bite with an acid or mordant; specifically, to engrave by the use of a mordant: as, to etch a design on a copperplate: applied in the fine arts either to a design or to the plate upon which it is made. See etching.

To sketch; delineate.

To practise etching.

n. A contracted form of eddish.

A dialectal or obsolete variant of eke.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible

v. make an etching of

v. carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block

v. carve or cut a design or letters into

v. selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons

Word Usage

"I think we view that etch, which is typically a 12\% to 13\% of wafer fab equipment."

Verb Form

etched etches etching

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

show chip at carve dissolve

Cross Reference

to etch with the drypoint

Variant

eddish

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sketch delineate corrode

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

fetch ketch kvetch meche outstretch sketch stretch

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

engrave lithograph deposition lithography