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- v make an etching of
He etched her image into the surface - v cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible
a face etched with pain
the leafless branches etched against the sky - v carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
- v carve or cut a design or letters into
- v selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons
- Computers and GPS devices are what we have today instead of Etch A Sketches and Erector Sets and Morse-code telegraph kits.
- Intel's space-suited workers etch more than 7 million, in lines one four-hundredth the thickness of a human hair, on each of its thumbnail-size Pentium II chips, which sell for .
- A growing number of produce packers and distributors are experimenting with natural-light labeling, a new process that uses a laser to etch identifying information (country of .