crystallize
IPA: krˈɪstʌɫaɪz
verb
- (transitive, chemistry, physics) to make something form into crystals
- (intransitive) to assume a crystalline form
- (transitive) to give something a definite or precise form
- (intransitive) to take a definite form
- (transitive) to coat something with crystals, especially with sugar
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Examples of "crystallize" in Sentences
- The plums are crystallized.
- The stone got crystallized.
- They crystallized the liquor.
- The men crystallized the liquid.
- In March, the plans crystallized.
- The people crystallized the mirror.
- They were not able to crystallized.
- It crystallizes in the tetragonal system.
- "It did kind of crystallize things," said Mr. Webb,
- “It did kind of crystallize things,” said Mr. Webb, 26.
- Mr. Reesling was silent for a long time, letting the idea crystallize, so to speak.
- _ I felt the idea crystallize, come home to roost, whatever the hell it is goofy ideas do.
- He said Layton will "crystallize" the distinctions between Conservatives and the New Democrats.
- Alas, the plans did not crystallize and to this day the Salvotini and the Thriller families remain in their corner of Morrison's Limbo.
- It has been ten months since I last cashed in an option; a year since I last fired an employee to "enhance shareholder value," and 11 months since I sold the company to "crystallize" that value.
- According to Woese and colleagues, the Darwinian threshold is the point in evolutionary history when the three domains, Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya, "crystallize" (Woese's term, 1998) their cellular architectures, which then become refractory to HGT.
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