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单词 galvanize
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galvanizen.

Brit. /ˈɡalvənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɡælvəˌnaɪz/, Caribbean English /ˈɡalvaˌnaiz/, /ˈɡalvʌˌnaiz/, Irish English /ˈɡælvənaɪz/
Forms:

α. 1900s– galvanize, 1900s– galvanise.

β. 1900s– galvanized.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: galvanized adj.
Etymology: < galvanized adj. (compare galvanized adj. Additions). In the α. forms showing loss of -ed suffix1 (a phenomenon particularly characteristic of Caribbean English).
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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈɡalvənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɡælvəˌnaɪz/
Forms: Also galvanise.
Etymology: < French galvaniser: see galvanism n. and -ize suffix.
1.
a. transitive. To apply galvanism to; to stimulate by means of a galvanic current. Also absol.
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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).
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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.
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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.
absolute.1892 Workshop Receipts 287 It is an advantage, with all sheets thicker than 20 gauge, to galvanize after corrugation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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