Vetch vs Etch - What's the difference?
vetch | etch |
Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia , often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.
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 vetch and etch
is that vetch is any of several leguminous plants, of the genus vicia , often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds 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.vetch
English
(wikipedia vetch) (Vicia)Noun
(vetches)Hyponyms
* )Derived terms
* ) * kidney vetch () * milk-vetch (Astragalus ) * vetchling (''Lathyrus) * vetchyExternal links
*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)
