Etch vs Ketch - What's the difference?
etch | ketch |
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
A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
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* 1815 , D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England , I. 21,
* 1865 , , II. IV. xv., page 287
* 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
* 1911 , , volume ii, page 60
* 1916 , W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
* 1929 , H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
* 1967 , Atlantic Monthly , Apr. 103/1
* 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
(rare) To hang.
* 1681 , T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
* n.d. , ''Ibid;;. No. 18
* 1840', ' Fraser's Mag ., XXI. 210
* 1859 , MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
A hangman.
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
- 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
* *ketch
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(es)See also
* yawl.Etymology 2
See catchVerb
(es)- I guess, he is trying to ketch' mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ' ketch'd with chaff.
- Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
- You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
- You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
- If so you gonna ketch hell.
- You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
Etymology 3
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.Verb
(es)- 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
- Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd , speed him say I.
- Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft .
- I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.