SOLARISE

sun, insolate, solarize, solarise

(verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; ā€œinsolated paper may turn yellow and crumbleā€; ā€œThese herbs suffer when sunnedā€

solarize, solarise

(verb) overexpose to sunlight; ā€œbe careful not to solarize the photographic filmā€

solarize, solarise

(verb) become overexposed; ā€œThe film solarizedā€

solarize, solarise

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

solarise (third-person singular simple present solarises, present participle solarising, simple past and past participle solarised)

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of solarize.

Anagrams

• aerosils, oralises

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

7 January 2025

UNINFORMATIVELY

(adverb) in an uninformative manner; ā€œā€˜I canā€™t tell you when the manager will arrive,ā€™ he said rather uninformativelyā€


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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