Sculpture vs Etch - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
(countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
* Dryden
Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
To represent something in sculpture.
To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
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 sculpture and etch
is that sculpture is the art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor while etch is obsolete form of lang=en.As verbs the difference between sculpture and etch
is that sculpture is to fashion something into a three-dimensional figure 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.sculpture
English
Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia sculpture)- There, too, in living sculpture , might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
Verb
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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)
