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metallicize en · VERB

Etymology

From metallic + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make metallic.
    • Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring). 2007 November 4, Edward Helmore, “Re-Arranging the Furniture”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
metallicizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
metallicizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
metallicized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
metallicized Tense=Past lexicographic