etch
蚀刻,腐蚀,蚀化,侵蚀
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Definitions
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- : to cut, bite, or corrode with an acid or the like; engrave with an acid or the like, as to form a design in furrows that when charged with ink will give an impression on paper.
- : to produce by this method, as on copper or glass.
- : to outline clearly or sharply; delineate, as a person's features or character.
- : to fix permanently in or implant firmly on the mind; root in the memory: Our last conversation is etched in my memory.
- : Geology. to cut into the surface of the earth by means of erosion: A deep canyon was etched into the land by the river's rushing waters.
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- : to practice the art of etching.
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- : Printing. an acid used for etching.
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Examples
I wish I could rub out my life,” she laments in the opening chapter, “twiddling knobs as on an Etch A Sketch, and start again.
On cable, you shake an Etch a Sketch every time you go on air.
But like his other etch-a-sketch moderation efforts, it might be too little, too late.
After the primaries, most pundits expected Romney to Etch-a-Sketch his way to the center.
I'll be posting followups to Etch-A-Mitt, the Terrible Generals post, and on why the foreign policy questions are terrible.
For the last time I referred to the map, pulpy and blurred with the day's exposure, and tried to etch it into my brain.
The light tints come out very soft and smooth, but the black tones etch "flat" and lose all detail.
Then, I love to etch, particularly on noses, and that was a good big one.
I do not know at what date my mother began to etch on copper.
She ate daintily, and as we talked, I studied her face as if I would etch it on my memory forever.