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Another word for etching

etching Synonyms

etching

n.

A process for producing printing plates
biting, cutting, engraving, photoengraving, delineating, processing, transferring, treating with acid, preparing a plate, reproduction; see also drawing 1, reproduction 1.
A work of art
print, black and white, colored print, colored etching, old master, aquatint, mezzotint, eau-forte (French); the work of an etcher: Rembrandt, Whistler, Pennell, Goya, etc.; see also engraving 2, picture 3.

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These regions present magnificent examples of dry erosion by wind-borne sand, which acts as a powerful sand blast etching away the rocks and producing most beautiful sculpturing.
His work in black-and-white, his admirable illustrations in brushwork of Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, and also his pen-drawings, about which it has been declared that "his work contains all the subtleties and refinements of a most delicate etching," must also be noted.
In some places wood-carving has been brought to considerable perfection; and native artists know how to engrave on metal both by etching and the burin.
Dark coloured micas are strongly pleochroic. Accurate determinations of the optical orientation, as well as the symmetry of the etching figures on the cleavage planes, seem to suggest that the micas, except muscovite, may be anorthic rather than monoclinic in crystallization.
In the 17th and 18th centuries the processes of scratching, engraving and etching were brought to great perfection.

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