Solidify
[sə'lɪdɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) become solid; 'The metal solidified when it cooled'.
(verb.) make solid or more solid; cause to solidify.
Edited by Candice--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make solid or compact.
(v. i.) To become solid; to harden.
Typed by Edwina
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Consolidate, compact, make solid.
v. n. Become solid.
Typed by Borg
Examples
- It is believed that this was the first time that soft material met with in tunneling under a river has been solidified by means of fire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These first rocks must have solidified as a cake over glowing liquid material beneath, much as cooling lava does. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- New metals, chemicals, and elements had become available in large numbers, gases had been liquefied and solidified, and the range of useful heat and cold indefinitely extended. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Below this steam atmosphere the molten world-stuff solidified as the first rocks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Would not matter solidifying after fusion form a glass, a vitreous, rather than a crystalline product? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One has but to remember that bottles of water burst when they freeze, and that ice floats on water like wood, to know that water expands on freezing or on solidifying. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Each liquid always solidifies at some fixed temperature, which is called its freezing point, and the solid melts again at the same temperature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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