Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To coat (a metallic surface) electrolytically with a protective or decorative oxide.
Wiktionary
- v. to coat the surface of a metal electrolytically with an oxide, either as protection or decoration
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to coat a metal with an oxide coat by electrolytic action at an anode; -- used especially to coat aluminum.
WordNet 3.0
- v. coat a metal with an oxide coat
Etymologies
- anod(e) + -ize. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Zinn writes how to anodize aluminum at home and then that GT appears.”
“Car Insurance Online cornmeal resynchronize anodize Isolde doubtless”
“And Iraq had bought a couple of hundred thousand of these tubes in the 1980s for rockets, and it didn't anodize them, and they corroded away.”
“Only way to fix this is to completely disassemble the thing and re-anodize the shell.”
“External surfaces are finished with black hard anodize for excellent corrosion resistance, with other colors and CARC (Chemical Agent Resistant Coating) paint available upon request.”
“The aluminum frame is created from aircraft aluminum to build a strong yet light body, it is polished or glass-bead blaster, and then anodize coated to make it rugged.”
“Major components are constructed from T6061 Aluminum with a hard anodize finish, internal components made from alloy steels, heat treated to Rockwell 52 for long lasting strength and durability.”
“Machined from T6061 Aluminum with a hard anodize finish and steel threads for strength and durability the QK01 is a valued upgrade.”
“Apparently our pals over at Computer Choppers have made it their mission in life to color anodize and metallic plate anything and everything that can be anodized or plated.”
“Fischer offers complete range of hand held coating thickness gauges ideally suited for measurements of paint, powder coating, plating and anodize. coating thickness gauges measure over ferrous, non-ferrous, or both ferrous and non-ferrous substrates”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anodize’.
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The "ize" have it
accessorize, finalize, computerize, prioritize, anodize, belizean, bizerte, capsize, citizen, denize, dizen, diazotize and 98 more...
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Metallics
Words that relate to or describe metals.
malleable, ductile, shiny, steely, brassy, dull, golden, precious, smelt, smith, tensile, clink and 39 more...
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Vocab [General]
No particular specification to this list.
philology, etymology, atavistic, proscribe, inchoate, vulgate, abstruse, agnate, anodize, anthropomorphic, assiduous, augur and 89 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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AmorFati's list
New(ish) words..
impetus, happenstance, coup de grâce, visceral, sentient, wistful, fingerling, transcend, canted, sinew, errant, harking and 85 more...
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