solarize
IPA: sˈoʊɫɝaɪz
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "solarize" in Sentences
- The most important work that we have to do is to weatherize and solarize America.
- Weatherstrip, insulate, solarize, and of course, kill vampires sucking energy in your home.
- If I brighten the original first, and then solarize it, I get reversal effects elsewhere in the picture.
- It turns out that the trick is to start with an underexposed photograph, solarize it and then brighten it up a little bit.
- Ever since I started taking digital pictures, I have been experimenting with the solarize filter in Photoshop, trying to create something similar to Adam's picture.
- These would be solar cells at the price of tissue paper — literally, and when embedded in everything we could solarize things and get I estimate 30% of our power from solar energy.
- Very soon, my agency-Bowden Pen Farmers Association-will begin implementation of a project to reforest part of the national park and to solarize their eco-lodge a big miracle, if you ask me.
- Becker's own book The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet targets 4 areas that need the most attention: cut carbon 40 percent by 2020, create green jobs (weatherize, solarize, rewire the nation), make the U.S. economy lead the world in renewable technology, and promote carbon-neutral power.
- A sane government would drop all subsidies and tax loopholes for Big Oil's huge profits and other fossil fuels and promote a national mission to solarize our economy to achieve major savings from energy conservation technology, retrofitting buildings, and upgrading efficiency standards for motor vehicles, home appliances, industrial engines and electric generating plants.
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