Jot vs Etch - What's the difference?
jot | etch |
An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.
* Bible, Matthew v. 18
* Shakespeare
A brief and hurriedly written note.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
(usually with "down") To write quickly.
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 nouns the difference between jot and etch
is that jot is while etch is .As a verb 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.jot
English
Noun
(en noun)- He didn't care a jot for his work.
- Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
- Neither will they bate / One jot of ceremony.
- "I say, it is no uneven jot , to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors "
Synonyms
*(small amount) see also .Derived terms
* every jot and tittle * not a jot or tittleVerb
(jott)- Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.
Derived terms
* jot downetch
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)