α. 1900s– galvanize, 1900s– galvanise.
β. 1900s– galvanized.
单词 | galvanize |
释义 | galvanizen.α. 1900s– galvanize, 1900s– galvanise. β. 1900s– galvanized. Caribbean, U.S. regional, and Irish English. Galvanized iron or steel, esp. in the form of corrugated sheets used for roofing or fencing. Also: a sheet of this. ΚΠ 1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad & Tobago) 29 Oct. 7/1 She jump dong on de galvanize ornin' way wos onder de winder and she slide dong in de strete. 1933 W. Houdini Trinidad Hurricane (song) in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 373/1 The woman was hit by a flying galvanise. 1966 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 623/2 It's [sc. a pail] usually made out of granite or galvanized. 1991 R. A. Schrader Kallaloo 7 I opened the window and the wind went ‘shoooooo’, blasting sheets of galvanize off the roof. 2014 C. Tóibín Nora Webster i. 12 Next year we'd do up the house for you... It could do with some patching on the galvanize. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). galvanizev. 1. a. transitive. To apply galvanism to; to stimulate by means of a galvanic current. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electricity in living organisms > apply galvanism to [verb (transitive)] galvanize1802 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 259 The heat is likewise increased in the part which is galvanised. 1825 S. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 203 Galvanise a frog, don't galvanise a tiger. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. v. 83/2 Those spasmodic, galvanic sprawlings are not life; neither indeed will they endure, galvanise as you may, beyond two days. 1840 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 41/2 I galvanized a little boy with paralysis of the left leg. 1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. ix. 117 You may galvanize the nerve of a corpse till the action of a limb startles the spectator with the appearance of life. b. figurative, esp. in phrase to galvanize to or into life (also to galvanize life into). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up stirc1000 aweccheOE stirc1175 arear?c1225 awakec1315 amovec1330 araisec1374 wake1398 wakenc1400 to stir upa1500 incend?1504 to firk upc1540 bestir1549 store1552 bustlea1555 tickle1567 solicitate1568 to stir one's taila1572 exsuscitate1574 rouse1574 suscitate1598 accite1600 actuate1603 arousea1616 poach1632 roust1658 to shake up1850 to galvanize to or into life1853 to make things (or something specified) hum1884 to jack up1914 rev1945 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. iii. 39 Her approach always galvanized him to new and spasmodic life. 1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness xxi. 203 She would fain galvanize the soul into life by a sudden shock. 1880 Daily News 9 Jan. 3/1 To galvanise a little more life into the market. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 537/1 A very old inn, that seemed suffering the first pangs of being galvanized back to life and modernity. 2. To cover with a coating of metal by means of galvanic electricity. Commonly but incorrectly applied to the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting, though no galvanic process is ordinarily employed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal tin1398 leadc1440 ironc1450 lay1472 copper1530 braze1552 silverize1605 foliate1665 plate1686 whiten1687 foil1714 blanch1729 quicken1738 amalgam1789 quick1790 aluminize1791 plate1791 zincify1801 platinize1825 resilver1832 galvanize1839 electroplate1843 zinc1843 electro-silver1851 platinate1858 electrotin1859 white-lead1863 palladiumize1864 white-metal1864 brassc1865 nickelize1865 nickel-plate1872 nickel1875 stopper1884 electro1891 sherardize1904 steel1911 stellite1934 flame-plate1954 steel-face1961 1839 [implied in: A. Ure Dict. Arts 544 Galvanized iron, is the somewhat fantastic name newly given in France to iron tinned by a peculiar patent process. (at galvanized iron at galvanized adj. 2)]. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Galvanize, to plate, as with gold, silver, &c., by means of galvanism. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxi. 187 Zinc..is employed as a protecting covering for iron, which when thus coated, is said to be galvanized. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator i. 61/2 The wire is ‘galvanised’ or coated with metallic zinc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1904v.1802 |
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