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.

Obsolete form of eddish.

(uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. / (countable) The image created by this process.

present participle of etch

Cut or dug into the surface as by etching. / (of a muscle, body part or person) Toned and with a well-defined musculature.

simple past tense and past participle of etch

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of etch

plural of etching

a needle-sharp steel tool for incising into plates in etching and the production of dry points.

A mechanical drawing toy operated by two knobs moving an enclosed stylus horizontally and vertically.