Etching

Noun

 * 1)  The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
 * 2)  The image created by this process.

Derived terms

 * etching scribe

Verb
etching



Adjectives
powerful; delicate; moving.

Thesaurus
abstract art, aquatint, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, autolithograph, block, block print, burr, calligraphy, cave art, ceramics, cerography, chalcography, chiseling, chromolithograph, color print, copperplate, copperplate print, crayon engraving, cribbling, cross-hatching, cut, decoration, demitint, design, designing, drypoint, engravement, engraving, etch, fine arts, folk art, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graphic arts, graphotype, graving, half tint, hatching, impress, impression, imprint, incision, inscript, inscription, intaglio, line, lining, linoleum-block print, lithograph, marking, metal cut, mezzotint, negative, photoengraving, photography, plastic art, plate engraving, primitive art, print, pyrogravure, relief method, rubber-block print, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sculpture, slash, slashing, steel engraving, stipple, stippling, the arts, tint, tooling, type-cutting, vignette, wood engraving, woodblock, woodburning, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph, zincography

Noun

 * Dutch: ets
 * French: gravure


 * Polish: