Sentence examples for etch from inspiring English sources
The word "etch" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean to carve or cut into a surface, especially a metal or glass surface. For example, "The artist carefully etched the design into the metal plate."
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 image is etched into the plate, using the techniques of letterpress line etching, with maximum depth of etch usually less than 0.007 inch.
The capacity of the GC to etch out political compromises among themselves, including with Mr Sistani, gradually improved.
So the search is on for more practical qubits.One promising approach is to etch qubits in semiconductors.
We have "cheque" and "tariff" from this source too, plus "arithmetic" and "algorithm"—just as we have "etch" and "sketch" from the Dutch, musical terms from the Italians and philosophical ones from the Germans.
Suppose machines could stitch Birkin bags better than the craftsmen at Hermès or etch watch dials more finely than Vacheron Constantin's guillocheurs?
It would be nice to be able to do the same thing with a beam of atoms.Ordinary, not-marching-in-step atomic beams are already used in precision clocks, and to etch some high-performance computer chips.
Katt Parkins likens it to an Etch-a-Sketch.
AFTER cleaning up in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, now is the time for Mitt Romney to use his mastery of etch-a-sketch to erase some unfortunate messages that reached big parts of the electorate during the Republican primaries.
He was also boosted by securing the prized endorsement of Jeb Bush, brother to George W., though this was overshadowed somewhat by one of Mr Romney's advisers likening the candidate's views to an Etch-a-Sketch toy that can be redrawn in time for the general election.
Sold nowadays in kit form or fully assembled for around $600 to a little over $1,000, the MyDIYCNC desktop machining centres can mill, cut, engrave and laser-etch metals with a speed and precision makers of 3D printers can only dream about.
It is rather like the etch-a-sketch moment referred to by Romney aide Eric Ferhnstrom in whichyou can kind of shake it up and we start all over againLarry Kantor, the head of research at Barclays Capital, put it well at this morning's presentation of the firm's global outlook.
