etching

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Related topics: Design, Painting and drawing

etch·ing /ˈetʃɪŋ/ noun [countable]  AVDa picture made by printing from an etched metal plate 刻版画；蚀刻画

Examples from the Corpus

etching• It doesn't have to be artwork like paintings, drawings, etchings, prints or even posters.• There were faint etchings in the gold, but she couldn't make them out.• These turned out to be prints of William Green's soft-ground etchings taken as proofs from the plates in the early 1800's.• And having lost our zeal for the idle etchings of some bored buckaroo, we slink off into the shade.• Hydrofluoric acid is the etching agent for silicate-rich rocks; carbonates can be etched with various weak acids.• When the etchings are taken down inmates will have another kind of picture to put in their place.• Weak etching gives a thin, patchy stain.• The ice on the river was smooth and transparent, not crisscrossed with the white etchings of skaters' tracks.

etch·ing nounChineseSyllable  

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etching
etch‧ing /ˈetʃɪŋ/ noun [countable]
a picture made by printing from an etched metal plate

etch·ingBrE /ˈetʃɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈetʃɪŋ/ 🔊 noun [countable, uncountable] a picture that is printed from an etched piece of metal; the art of making these pictures 蚀刻画；蚀刻术；蚀刻法