different between sculpture vs etch

English

Etymology

From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculpt?ra (“sculpture”), from sculp? (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?lpt???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?lptj(?)?/, /?sk?lpt???/
• Hyphenation: sculp?ture

Noun

sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)

1. (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

   • There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

2. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
3. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.

Translations

Verb

sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)

1. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
2. To represent something in sculpture.
3. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

Translations

Related terms

• sculpt
• sculptor
• sculptureless
• sculpturelike

Further reading

• sculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sculpture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sculpture at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skyl.ty?/ (p is not pronounced)
• Homophone: sculptures

Noun

sculpture f (plural sculptures)

1. sculpture

Further reading

• “sculpture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• sculpteur

Latin

Participle

sculpt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sculpt?rus

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