Crossword clues for homogenize
homogenize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
homogenize \homogenize\ v. t.
To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.
Specifically: To blend separated liquids together so as to form a uniform emulsion which does not separate out into its original constituents on standing; -- used especially of milk; as, most milk sold in cartons is pasteurized and homogenized.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"make similar," 1742, from homogenous + -ize. Sense of "render milk uniform in consistency" is from 1901. Related: Homogenized; homogenizing.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To make homogenous, to blend or puree. 2 Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates. vb. 1 To make homogenous, to blend or puree. 2 Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates.
WordNet
v. cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing; "homogenize the main ingredients" [syn: homogenise]
break up the fat globules of; "homogenized milk" [syn: homogenise] [ant: curdle, curdle]
become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing; "The two liquids homogenized in the blender" [syn: homogenise] [ant: curdle]
Usage examples of "homogenize".
The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form.
The right kind of elitism can restore the butterfat to a homogenized society.
Two hundred miles upriver, Natchez exists in a ripple of time that somehow eludes the homogenizing influences of the present.
Few of us have ever met an angel, and probably would not recognize it if we saw one, and our images of an impersonal or suprapersonal God are hopelessly subhuman--jello, featureless light, homogenized space, or a whopping jolt of electricity.
Even between 1920 and 1930, America progressed from a land of cultural competition and chaos to a much more homogenized society, with its multitude of ethnicities beginning to merge into one.
On the back of the half-gallon carton of homogenized, pasteurized, vitamin D-fortified milk there are two mugshots of smiling children, gone, missing.
Not many blacks had been among the refugees to Samothrace, and the population had homogenized by intermarriage in the centuries since.
In time, the diverse cultures of the Galaxy, involving a large number of quite different-looking organisms, based on different biochemistries and different initial cultures, would become homogenized – just as the diverse cultures of Earth today are in the process of homogenization.
How many such exchanges would it take to homogenize the shared culture of a thousand species, born of different stars and biochemistries, creatures of flesh and metal, of rock and gas?
The techno-societies, far from being drab and homogenized, are honeycombed with just such colorful groupings--hippies and hot rodders, theosophists and flying saucer fans, skin-divers and skydivers, homosexuals, computerniks, vegetarians, bodybuilders and Black Muslims.
Amsterdam is an exciting place, swarming with young people from all over the new homogenized Europe, a city that never sleeps.
All values become equalized and homogenized in a flatland devoid of individual values or identities.
Not only is reality automatically assumed to revolve most significantly around those holons that actually possess the least significance, but mysticism itselfthere are at least four quite different varieties of mysticism, as we have seenmysticism itself is homogenized into some version of the unified field or dynamic web or quantum vacuum (or some such creative reading of the mathematical formalisms), and the two homogenized messes ("quantum" and allegedly "mystical") are crudely pressed together and simply presented as covering all the bases.
There is no other interior development either recommended or mentioned or even hinted at (the embrace of the new monological paradigm is simply supposed to rather automatically usher one into homogenized mystical mush.
My personality will reside in each of us equally, a homogenized presence.