Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To affect by exposing to the sun's rays.
- intransitive verb To be overexposed. Used of photographic film.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In photography, to become injured by too long exposure to the action of light.
- To affect by sunlight: modify in some way by the action of solar rays.
- In photography, to affect injuriously by exposing too long to light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Photog.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
- intransitive verb (Photog.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera; -- an older term now replaced by
overexpose .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To subject to
solarization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it
- verb overexpose to sunlight
- verb become overexposed
- verb expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
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Examples
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These would be solar cells at the price of tissue paper — literally, and when embedded in everything we could solarize things and get I estimate 30% of our power from solar energy.
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Weatherstrip, insulate, solarize, and of course, kill vampires sucking energy in your home.
Lori Pottinger: Celebrate World Environment Day: Adopt a Planet 2010
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Very soon, my agency-Bowden Pen Farmers Association-will begin implementation of a project to reforest part of the national park and to solarize their eco-lodge a big miracle, if you ask me.
Disclaimer 2009
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Becker's own book The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet targets 4 areas that need the most attention: cut carbon 40 percent by 2020, create green jobs (weatherize, solarize, rewire the nation), make the U.S. economy lead the world in renewable technology, and promote carbon-neutral power.
Graham Hill: The "Green" Stimulus Plan is Growing Yellow-Bellied 2009
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A sane government would drop all subsidies and tax loopholes for Big Oil's huge profits and other fossil fuels and promote a national mission to solarize our economy to achieve major savings from energy conservation technology, retrofitting buildings, and upgrading efficiency standards for motor vehicles, home appliances, industrial engines and electric generating plants.
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The most important work that we have to do is to weatherize and solarize America.
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If I brighten the original first, and then solarize it, I get reversal effects elsewhere in the picture.
My black sun AYDIN 2006
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It turns out that the trick is to start with an underexposed photograph, solarize it and then brighten it up a little bit.
My black sun AYDIN 2006
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If I brighten the original first, and then solarize it, I get reversal effects elsewhere in the picture.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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Ever since I started taking digital pictures, I have been experimenting with the solarize filter in Photoshop, trying to create something similar to Adam's picture.
My black sun AYDIN 2006
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June 26, 2011
Sorcha commented on the word solarize
I don't approve of this word.
June 26, 2011
dailyword commented on the word solarize
We did this with our tomatoes.
June 10, 2012