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Word: Anneal
Speech Type: Verb
Old English onǣlan, from on + ǣlan ‘burn, bake’ from āl ‘fire, burning’. The original sense was ‘set on fire’, hence (in late Middle English)‘subject to fire, alter by heating’
əˈniːl
heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work
Short Definition:heat metal or glass and allow it to cool slowly
Examples:- copper tubes must be annealed after bending or they will be brittle
- the chimneys of annealing furnaces
- Dr Lowenstein, annealed to hostility, looked at me coolly
recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form.
Short Definition:recombine DNA in double-stranded form
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