Gnaw vs Etch - What's the difference?
gnaw | etch |
To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
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 gnaw and etch
is that gnaw is to bite something persistently, especially something tough while 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printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.As a noun etch is
obsolete form of lang=en.gnaw
English
Verb
- The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.
- Her comment gnawed at me all day and I couldn't think about anything else.
Derived terms
* gnawer * gnawableAnagrams
*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)
