metallize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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"Didn't they call me crazy," he asks an acquaintance, "because I said they should set up shops to dry-clean and dye dogs and metallize shirt cuffs?"
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yet he has spelled chappelling, bordeller, medallist, metalline, metallist, metallize, clavellated, &c. with ll, contrary to his rule."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
“Rather than being rocklike,” Jeanloz says, “we should really be thinking of the center of big planets as some kind of metallized oxygen jelly.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2021
By impure air, red lead is blackened and ultimately metallized.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
President Charles and General William had been lowered into Copper Pit and metallized.
From Out of the Earth by Edrich, George
By a foul atmosphere, the scarlet is soon utterly destroyed, and even metallized.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
In fact, from its appearance it received the name "metallized filament."
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew
The Schoop metallizing process has recently been improved by the use of the electric current instead of the blowpipe for melting the metal.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
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