different between sculpt vs etch

English

Etymology

From French sculpter, from Latin sculp? (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

Verb

sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)

1. (transitive) To form by sculpture.

   They sculpted a statue out of clay.

2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

   What do you do?

   I used to box, but now I sculpt.

Derived terms

• resculpt

Related terms

• sculptor
• sculpture

Translations

Noun

sculpt (plural sculpts)

1. (computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

Further reading

• sculpt at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Dutch etsen (“to etch”), from German ätzen (“to etch”), from Old High German azzon (“to cause to bite or feed”), from Proto-Germanic *atjan?, causative of *etan? (“to eat”) (whence also English eat).

Verb

etch (third-person singular simple present etches, present participle etching, simple past and past participle etched)

1. 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.
2. To engrave a surface.
3. (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.

   The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

4. To sketch; to delineate.

   • There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

Translations

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

etch

1. Obsolete form of eddish.

Anagrams

• Chet, Tech., chet, echt, hect-, tech