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ETCHING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

Synonyms:

engraving; etching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("etching" is a kind of...):

printmaking (artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etching"):

steel engraving (the act of engraving on a steel plate)

aquatint (a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color)

Derivation:

etch (make an etching of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An etched plate made with the use of acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("etching" is a kind of...):

engraving (a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved)

Derivation:

etch (make an etching of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An impression made from an etched plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("etching" is a kind of...):

engraving (a print made from an engraving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etching"):

aquatint (an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color)

Derivation:

etch (make an etching of)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb etch

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