1. to cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid.
2. to make or create by this method: etch a design on glass.
3. to impress, delineate, or imprint clearly: a landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that were etched against the winter sky.
4. to engage in etching.

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.

1. A variant of eddish.
2. to practice etching; to make etchings.
3. 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.
4. to subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
5. to sketch; to delineate.

1. 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.
2. to sketch; delineate.
3. to practise etching.
4. A dialectal or obsolete variant of eke.
5. A contracted form of eddish.

1. cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible
2. make an etching of
3. carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
4. carve or cut a design or letters into
5. selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons