Porcelainize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To bake like porcelain. transitive
"porcelainized clay shales"
- 2 coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface wordnet
- 3 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 ."
- 4 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 ."
Example
More examples"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 ."
Etymology
From porcelain + -ize.
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