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Etch vs Ketch - What's the difference?

etch | ketch |

As verbs the difference between etch and ketch

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 ketch is or ketch can be (rare) to hang.

As nouns the difference between etch and ketch

is that etch is while ketch is a fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post or ketch can be a hangman.

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)

    Anagrams

    * *

    ketch

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
  • See also
    * yawl.

    Etymology 2

    See catch

    Verb

    (es)
  • .
  • * 1815 , D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England , I. 21,
  • I guess, he is trying to ketch' mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ' ketch'd with chaff.
  • * 1865 , , II. IV. xv., page 287
  • Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
  • * 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
  • * 1911 , , volume ii, page 60
  • You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
  • * 1916 , W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
  • You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
  • * 1929 , H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
  • If so you gonna ketch hell.
  • * 1967 , Atlantic Monthly , Apr. 103/1
  • You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
  • * 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
  • Etymology 3

    From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (rare) To hang.
  • * 1681 , T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
  • 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
  • * n.d. , ''Ibid;;. No. 18
  • Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd , speed him say I.
  • * 1840', ' Fraser's Mag ., XXI. 210
  • Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft .
  • * 1859 , MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
  • I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A hangman.