sun, insolate, solarize, solarise
(verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; “insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble”; “These herbs suffer when sunned”
solarize, solarise
(verb) overexpose to sunlight; “be careful not to solarize the photographic film”
solarize, solarise
(verb) become overexposed; “The film solarized”
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
solarize (third-person singular simple present solarizes, present participle solarizing, simple past and past participle solarized)
(transitive) To subject to solarization.
(transitive, dated, photography) To overexpose.
(intransitive, dated, photography) To become overexposed.
(horticulture) To treat soil by covering with plastic and exposing to sunlight.
To convert to using solar energy.
• oralizes
Source: Wiktionary
So"lar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Solarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Solarizing.] (Photog.)
Definition: To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
So"lar*ize, v. i. (Photog.)
Definition: To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 May 2025
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
