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Carve vs Etch - What's the difference?

carve | etch |

Etch is a synonym of carve.



In figuratively terms the difference between carve and etch

is that carve is to take or make, as by cutting; to provide while etch is to make a lasting impression.

As verbs the difference between carve and etch

is that carve is to cut while etch is to cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.

As nouns the difference between carve and etch

is that carve is a carucate while etch is obsolete form of lang=en.

carve

English

(Carving)

Verb

  • (archaic) To cut.
  • * Tennyson
    • My good blade carved the casques of men.
  • To cut meat in order to serve it.
    • You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.
  • To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
    • to carve a name into a tree
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, year_published=2008 , edition=HTML, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
  • (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
  • (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
  • * South
    • who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010
    • , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards. }}
  • To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

    Derived terms

    * carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A carucate.
    • half a carve of arable land
    (Burrill)

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    etch

    English

    Etymology 1

    Germanic, cognate with Dutch ets .

    Verb

  • To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  • To engrave a surface.
  • (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.
    • The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
  • To sketch; to delineate.
  • * John Locke
    • There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    • (Mortimer)

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