etch — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Động từ

1. 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.

2. To engrave a surface.

3. To make a lasting impression.

   Cách dùng

   • nghĩa bóng

   Ví dụ

   The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

   His sorrow was etched on his face.

4. To sketch; to delineate.

   Ví dụ

   There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

Động từ

1. make an etching of

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   print

   Ví dụ

   He etched her image into the surface

2. cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   show

   Ví dụ

   a face etched with pain

   the leafless branches etched against the sky

3. carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   engrave

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   print

   Ví dụ

   engrave a letter

4. carve or cut a design or letters into

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   engrave

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   carvechip at

   Ví dụ

   engrave the pen with the owner's name

5. selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   dissolve