Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To study geology or make geologic investigations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To study or investigate geologically: as, to
geologize a district. - To study geology; make geological investigations; discourse as a geologist. Also spelled
geologise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To study the
geology of a location in the field
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Examples
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Frank Debenham, T. Griffith T.ylor, T.yggve Gran and P.O. Robert Forde, the Second Western Party, set out from Cape Evans on December 14, 1911, to geologize in the area of Granite Harbour, and they built a rock shelter that they called Granite House, a name they took from a Jules Verne story.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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We travelled about 4 hours on hard blue ice, and I was allowed to geologize the last hour down the two outer lines of boulders.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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We continued travelling northward, in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize.
Chapter XVI 1909
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And between the intervals of eating fruit, we will geologize on the way home, with this little bit of paper to show us where we are.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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