Usually means: Carve or cut into surface.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. etch: Merriam-Webster
  2. etch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. etch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. etch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. etch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Etch, etch: Wordnik
  7. etch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. etch: Wiktionary
  9. etch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. etch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. etch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Etch, etch: Dictionary.com
  13. etch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. etch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Etch (disambiguation), Etch (protocol), Etch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Etch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. etch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. etch: Rhymezone
  19. Etch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. etch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. etch: FreeDictionary.org
  22. etch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. etch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. etch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. etch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. etch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. etch: Encyclopedia

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  2. etch: Medical dictionary

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  2. etch: Idioms

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  1. Etch (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. etch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Etch: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
verb:  To engrave a surface.
verb:  (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.
verb:  To sketch; to delineate.
noun:  Obsolete form of eddish. [An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such growth.]

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