etch
pronunciation
How to pronounce etch in British English:
UK [etʃ]
How to pronounce etch in American English:
US [ɛtʃ]
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- Verb:
- make an etching of
Word Origin
- etch
- etch: [17] A line that has been etched has been literally ‘eaten’ away by acid or other corrosives. The word was borrowed from Dutch etsen, which in turn came from German ätzen ‘corrode, etch’. This can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *atjan ‘cause to eat, feed’, a relation of *etan ‘eat’ (from which English gets eat).=> eat
- etch (v.)
- 1630s, "to engrave by eating away the surface of with acids," from Dutch etsen, from German ätzen "to etch," from Old High German azzon "give to eat; cause to bite, feed," from Proto-Germanic *atjanan, causative of *etanan "eat" (see eat). Related: Etched; etching. The Etch A Sketch drawing toy was introduced 1960 by Ohio Art Company.
Example
- 1. One promising approach is to etch qubits in semiconductors .
- 2. He also believes it should be possible to extend the principle beyond superconductors , to use x-rays to etch out electronic circuits more generally .
- 3. Researchers at hp labs recently managed to etch a pattern into a flat piece of silicon so that it could focus light " like a spoon " , says raymond beausoleil of hp labs .
- 4. This research hopes to make advancedly and widely and endure the rice structure a less than it , assemble the membrane by oneself through the pattern , and replace tradition with it and is only covered , only hinders alternative to etch .
- 5. They 've used lasers to etch the yangcheng name on crab shells .