Itching vs Etching - What's the difference?
itching | etching |
A sensation that itches.
* 1856 , Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology (page 71)
(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;."
As verbs the difference between itching and etching
is that itching is present participle of lang=en while etching is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between itching and etching
is that itching is a sensation that itches while etching is the art of producing an from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.itching
English
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(en noun)- Itchings , hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.
