Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.
- intransitive verb To become vitreous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To convert into glass by the action of heat. See
glass . - To become glass; be converted into glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To become glass; to be converted into glass.
- transitive verb To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to be made into
glass , especially through heat
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
- verb change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The painting with vitreous colours on glass depends entirely on the same principles as painting in enamel, and he manner of executing it is likewise the same, except that in this the transparency of the colours being indispensably requisite no substance can be used to form them but such as vitrify perfectly, since, without such vitrification, there can be no transparency.
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Seventhly, That all kind of vitrify'd substances, by being suddenly cool'd, become very hard and brittle.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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As the ground underfoot and the slow-moving waters of the river begin to vitrify, so too do the flora and fauna.
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France has two commercial plants to vitrify HLW left over from reprocessing oxide fuel, and there are plants in the UK and Belgium as well.
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The result could be a more detailed design with less waste of coloring material; this was also a technique to add colors that did not vitrify evenly under normal circumstances.
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[Heat] unites the little particles of matter, makes them adhere to the surface of the enamel and vitrify them with itself.
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It may take 20 to 30 years to then vitrify all of the waste.
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He taught the potters to vitrify their clay, and he taught music and singing.
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He taught the potters to vitrify their clay, and he taught music and singing.
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They would not doubtless have the advantages of the wicks which are impregnated with boracic acid, and which vitrify as they burn and are entirely consumed, but Cyrus Harding having manufactured a beautiful pair of snuffers, these candles would be greatly appreciated during the long evenings in Granite House.
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