different between portrayal vs etching

English

Etymology

portray +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p???t?e?.?l/
• Rhymes: -e??l

Noun

portrayal (plural portrayals)

1. The act of portraying.
2. The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
   • 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest

     He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...

   • 1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste

     For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et?.??/
• Rhymes: -?t???

Noun

etching (plural etchings)

1. (uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

   Coordinate term: engraving

   Hypernym: intaglio

   Hyponyms: aquatint, mezzotint

2. (countable) The image created by this process.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

Derived terms

• etching scribe

Translations

Verb

etching

1. present participle of etch

Further reading

• etching on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• teching