Etch vs Ingrave - What's the difference?
etch | ingrave |
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
* 1747', William Faithorne, ''Sculptura Historico-technica: Or the History and Art of '''Ingraving (etc.) ,
* 1840 , Bejamin Barnard, William Henry Black, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum , footnote,
* 1991 , ],
(obsolete) To bury.
As verbs the difference between etch and ingrave
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printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards while ingrave is obsolete form of lang=en.As a noun etch
is obsolete form of lang=en.etch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)
Anagrams
* *ingrave
English
Verb
(ingrav)- (Tennyson)
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- Even in Ashmole's plate of the feast of Saint George, in the Hall at Windsor, (ingraved by Hollar,) the Knights may be seen, feeding themselves with their fingers : one only appears to be using a fork or spoon.
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- This work, with its border decorations ingraved with festoons of fruit and animals all cast in metal, cost twenty-two thousand florins, while the bronze doors themselves weighed thirty-four thousand pounds.
- (Heywood)