different between tetch vs etch

English

Verb

tetch (third-person singular simple present tetches, present participle tetching, simple past and past participle tetched)

1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of touch.

Noun

tetch (plural tetches)

1. Pronunciation spelling of touch.

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

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Etymology 2

Noun

etch

1. Obsolete form of eddish.

Anagrams

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