Etch vs Encise - What's the difference?
etch | encise |
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.
To sketch; to delineate.
* John Locke
As verbs the difference between etch and encise
is that 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 while encise is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun etch
is obsolete form of lang=en.etch
English
Etymology 1
Germanic, cognate with Dutch ets .Verb
- The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
- 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)
