anneal, temper, normalize
(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; “temper glass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
anneal (third-person singular simple present anneals, present participle annealing, simple past and past participle annealed)
(metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
(archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
(genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
(figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
• (harden): indurate, ruggedize, temper; see also harden
• (strengthen): See also strengthen
anneal (plural anneals)
(chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.
• Leanna
Source: Wiktionary
An*neal", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Annealing.] Etym: [OE. anelen to heat, burn, AS. an; an on + to burn; also OE. anelen to enamel, prob. influenced by OF. neeler, nieler, to put a black enamel on gold or silver, F. nieller, fr. LL. nigellare to blacken, fr. L. nigellus blackish, dim. of niger black. Cf. Niello, Negro.]
1. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
2. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
