/ɛt͡ʃ/ · verb
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..
The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.
Black Oats are commonly sown upon an Etch Crop, or on a Lay which they plow up in January, when the Earth is moist, taking care to turn the Turf well, and to lay it even and flat.
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Etch means 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..
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The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
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