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galvanized
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galvanize \Gal"va*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Galvanized; p pr. & vb. n. Galvanizing.] [Cf. F. galvaniser.]
To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.
To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.
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To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.
Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, "subject to galvanism," past participle adjective from galvanize. As "coated with a metal by galvanism" from 1839, originally in galvanized iron.\n\nIron covered with zinc has been called galvanised iron, from the fact that we have two metals in different electrical conditions; the zinc, suffering chemical change, oxidising, and acting as a protecting agent to the iron.
["Hunt's Hand-Book to the Official Catalogues," 1851]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: galvanize)
Wikipedia
Galvanized is the seventh studio album by The Urge. It was released on November 22, 2013 through their own label, The Urge, LLC. It is the first studio album since 2000's Too Much Stereo and the first album since their disbandment in 2001.
Usage examples of "galvanized".
According to the little they had on Israel Bedford, the Union vet and local homesteader who'd cashed that one treasury note in these parts didn't seem connected in any way with Galvanized Yankees, whether they'd deserted in time of war or served with honor and just gone on home to brag on being a vet of both sides.
Then armed men appeared from a galvanized shed, tucked under the shadow of the eastbound tunnel entrance.
They saw several long, low, galvanized roofs that looked similar to the type used for bean storage in Kenya.
The galvanized roofs of the main buildings bad grown to a dull dark gray from the repeated showers of volcanic ash that Picchu Peak deposited wherever the wind blew.
Calvert Tyger's gang of Galvanized Yankees seemed to have worn their own fight for the Lost Cause a mite thin, to Longarm's way of thinking.
Sibley's Minnesota militia were gleefully exterminating Santee, having gained the upper hand after some earlier and mighty frightening reverses, by the time old Pope had made it west with his Union regulars and columns of Galvanized Yankees in time to mop up.
I rode with Sibley's Volunteers, and we had to laugh at those ragtag Galvanized Yankees when they rode tear-ass all over after Sioux we'd already shot the liver and lights out of.
I know they all say Calvert Tyger, Brick Flanders, and them other Galvanized Yankees started out in these parts years ago.
You reckon he was really that cuss called Chief who ran off with them Galvanized Yankee deserters that time?
Before he went bad and deserted with them Galvanized Yankees, he saved Axel Runeberg's bacon in a skirmish up by Yellow Medicine.
But as far as anyone knew, none of those Galvanized Yankees who'd led a young Chippewa astray had been Minnesota boys, and other treasury notes from the same robbery kept turning up all over creation.
So that, however empty, the feel of his mind galvanized activity in the all but erased, echoing caverns of its own.
The walls of the building were of corrugated galvanized iron sheeting.
Ghoulishly he pointed out the dried stains on the concrete floor and galvanized walls.
Yet her anger fuelled her, and when she saw the galvanized iron roofs of the mine buildings shining in the sun her weariness dropped away.