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porcelainize

porcelainize verb: to bake like porcelain.

Verb

porcelainize (third-person singular simple present porcelainizes, present participle porcelainizing, simple past and past participle porcelainized)

  1. (transitive) To bake like porcelain.
    • porcelainized clay shales
  2. To make or become glassy or porcelain-like.
    • They may, however, be used as shewn in the drawing, but such walls must be built entirely of the best description of fire bricks or lumps and fire-clay, and should not be connected above with any portion of the work, as they are sure to fuse or porcelainize more or less .1839, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 267
    • Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool!1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667
  3. To apply a glassy or porcelain-like coating or finish to.
    • In recent months a technique has been worked out to porcelainize the steel blanks .1953, Investor - Volume 4, page 26
    • Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays. Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs.1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93

Forms of porcelainize

third-person singular presentporcelainizes
present participleporcelainizing
past participleporcelainized
pastporcelainized
alternative formporcelanize
alternative formporcelainise

Origin of porcelainize

From porcelain + -ize.

Questions about porcelainize

What does porcelainize mean?
Porcelainize means to bake like porcelain.
What part of speech is porcelainize?
Porcelainize is a verb.
What is the past tense of porcelainize?
The past tense of porcelainize is porcelainized.

Words near porcelainize in the dictionary

  1. porcelainflowers
  2. porcelaining
  3. porcelainite
  4. porcelainites
  5. porcelainization
  6. porcelainize
  7. porcelainized
  8. porcelainizes
  9. porcelainizing
  10. porcelainlike
  11. porcelainous

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