etch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Obsolete form of eddish. alt-of,obsolete
    — Black Oats are commonly sown upon an Etch Crop, or on a Lay which they plow up in January, when the Earth is moist, taking care to turn the Turf well, and to lay it even and flat.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
  2. To engrave a surface.
  3. To make a lasting impression. figuratively
    — The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
  4. To sketch; to delineate.
    — There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

词形变化

etches present,singular,third-person etching participle,present etched participle,past etched past

词汇关系

衍生词
cryoetch etchable etcher etchplain etchplanation microetch overetch photoetch piranha etch self-etch total-etch underetch
相关词
etchant etching

词源

From Dutch etsen (“to etch”), from German ätzen (“to etch”), from Old High German azzon (“to cause to bite or feed”), from Proto-Germanic *atjaną, causative of *etaną (“to eat”) (whence also English eat).
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