Dictionary Entry
etch
etch is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A variant of Eddish. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A variant of Eddish.
- 2transitive verb
To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
- 3transitive verb
To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
- 4transitive verb
To sketch; to delineate.
- 5intransitive verb
To practice etching; to make etchings.
- 6verb
selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons
- 7verb
carve or cut a design or letters into
"engrave the pen with the owner's name"
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- 8verb
carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
"engrave a letter"
Synonyms
- 9verb
make an etching of
"He etched her image into the surface"
- 10verb
cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible
"a face etched with pain"
"the leafless branches etched against the sky"
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