Galvanize
['ɡælvənaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock.
(verb.) cover with zinc; 'galvanize steel'.
Edited by Albert--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
(v. t.) To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.
(v. t.) To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.
(v. t.) To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.
Editor: Matt
Examples
- It was already known how to vulcanize rubber, and how to galvanize iron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To make this incubator get your tinner to make you a tank 15 inches wide, 30 inches long, and 12 inches deep, of galvanized iron or zinc, the iron being preferable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- So the scream of Sabor, the lioness, galvanized the brain and muscles of little Tarzan into instant action. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They are generally galvanized to prevent them from rusting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Dr. Steinheil also introduced the use of galvanized iron wire. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Galvanized Iron invented by Craufurd. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The wires themselves are about one-sixth of an inch in diameter; they are made of iron coated with zinc, or galvanized, as it is termed, to protect them from rust. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In _coating with metals_, the so-called galvanizing of iron is an important art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And this intention is the half-perceived current which runs through our age and galvanizes so many queer revolts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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