0 past simple and past participle of etch
1 to cut a pattern, picture, etc. into a smooth surface, especially on metal or glass, using acid or a sharp instrument:
Secondly, a number of films showed that while the provinces and the city remained linked, the differences were more sharply etched.
It was a handsome, hand-crafted object, painted in gaudy fairground fashion with stained or etched glass in its windows and a marble-countered and ceramic-tiled interior.
The etched portions were between 1.5 and 2 mm long.
The neurochip has electrodes set inside small wells etched into the silicon.
The territorial gains of the war were etched in personal memories and blood.
The chloride-bearing materials are lighttoned and exhibit patterned-ground and etched-terrain morphologies.
Is a map of stars etched into the brains of indigo buntings to guide them south?
Salmond points out that northern textile workers came from a long tradition of unionization and mobilized in communities deeply etched in class institutions.
