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etcher

/ech/US // ɛtʃ //UK // (ɛtʃ) //

蚀刻机,蚀刻者,蚀刻器,腐蚀者

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to practice the art of etching.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Printing. an acid used for etching.

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Examples

  • "He is the great unconscious humorist of modern art, also a great etcher," said Isabel, dryly.

  • Messrs. Cassell and others issued portfolios of prints, and every painter became an etcher.

  • At the present time they are ignored or defied, and the bigger the plate the better pleased is the etcher and his public.

  • No etcher had got such fullness of colour without a mass of cross-hatching that takes away from the freshness.

  • In the olden time the engraver, or etcher, himself was to a considerable extent his own printer.