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5 entries found for anneal.
an·neal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-nl)
v. an·nealed, an·neal·ing, an·neals
v. tr.
To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness.
To strengthen or harden.
v. intr.
To become strengthened or hardened: “the time she needed for opinion to anneal around her policy” (Alexander M. Haig, Jr.).
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[Middle English anelen, from Old English onlan, to set fire to : on, on; see on + lan, to kindle.]
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry: an·neal
Pronunciation: &-'nE(&)l
Function: transitive verb
1 : to heat and then cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle
2 : to heat and then cool (nucleic acid) in order to separate strands and induce combination at lower temperatures especially with complementary strands of a different species anneal intransitive senses
: to be capable of combining with complementary nucleic acid by a process of heating and cooling <some bacterial nucleic acid anneals well with eukaryotic DNA>
Source: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
anneal
\An*neal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Annealing.] [OE. anelen to heat, burn, AS. an?lan; an on + ?lan to burn; also OE. anelen to enamel, prob. influenced by OF. neeler, nieler, to put a black enamel on gold or silver, F. nieller, fr. LL. nigellare to blacken, fr. L. nigellus blackish, dim. of niger black. Cf. Niello, Negro.] 1. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
2. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
anneal
v : toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass" [syn: temper, normalize]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
anneal
anneal: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary
Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & Cancer
2 entries found for anele.
anele
\A*nele"\, v. t. [OE. anelien; an on + AS. ele oil, L. oleum. See Oil, Anoil.] 1. To anoint. --Shipley.
2. To give extreme unction to. [Obs.] --R. of Brunne.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
anele
v : administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing [syn: anoint, inunct, oil, embrocate]
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