etched

etched
    adj 1: cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design";
           "engraved invitations" [syn: {engraved}, {etched},
           {graven}, {incised}, {inscribed}]
    

Etch \Etch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Etched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Etching}.] [D. etsen, G. [aum]tzen to feed, corrode, etch.
   MHG. etzen, causative of ezzen to eat, G. essen ??. See
   {Eat}.]
   1. 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.
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   Note: The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other
         ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then
         scored or scratched with a needle, or similar
         instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is
         then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the
         lines thus laid bare.
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   2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as
      a plate of metal.
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            I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875.
                                                  --Hamerton.
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   3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.]
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            There are many empty terms to be found in some
            learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch
            out their system.                     --Locke.
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etched \etched\ adj.
   Cut or impressed into a surface.

   Syn: engraved, graven, incised.
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   2. Corroded so that the surface is matte and not fully
      transparent; -- of glass.
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "etched":
      confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded,
      deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled,
      dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved,
      entrenched, established, firmly established, graven, implanted,
      impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained,
      ingrown, inveterate, inwrought, long-established, old-line,
      on a rock, on bedrock, rooted, set, settled, stabilized, vested,
      well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set,
      well-settled