etching

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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;[…]."

2. 2
   noun

   making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

3. 3
   noun

   an etched plate made with the use of acid

4. 4
   noun

   an impression made from an etched plate

5. 5
   noun

   The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of etch