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Etching vs Incisive - What's the difference?

etching | incisive |

As a noun etching

is (lb) the art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

As a verb etching

is .

As an adjective incisive is

quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.

etching

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
  • (lb) The image created by this process.
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  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching ; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • Derived terms

    * etching scribe

    Verb

    (head)
  • incisive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive .}}
  • Intelligently analytical and concise.
  • Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
  • * G. Eliot
  • An incisive , high voice.
  • * Mrs. Browning
  • And her incisive smile accrediting / That treason of false witness in my blush.
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.
  • Derived terms

    * incisively * incisiveness * incisivity ----