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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
polarise
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years.
▪ Because glass is not a true crystalline solid, it will have no polarising effect on the light.
▪ Debate tended to polarise - New Right and old Left.
▪ The ceramic's crystals polarise in one of two alternate states when energised by an electric field.
▪ The current architectural debate has served to polarise popular opinion on modern architecture.
▪ The Schism, we may say, tragically helped to polarise increasingly strong nationalist attitudes towards the war.
▪ The trend to polarise in reading theory and practice is both unnecessary and unfortunate.
▪ There are two major themes to be drawn out in this discussion which polarise it to some extent at opposite points.
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polarise

vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling polarize English)

WordNet
polarise

  1. v. cause to vibrate in a definite pattern; "polarize light waves" [syn: polarize]

  2. cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions [syn: polarize]

  3. become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation [syn: polarize]

Usage examples of "polarise".

He then explained that Freud experts tended to be cagey because they are polarised between those who think Freud is unassailably great and those who think he took way too much drugs for his own good.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance showed concavity after the first showed convexity.

Light was pouring into the dimmed room through a flaw in the polarised glass of the window.

To the cat, who watches with a variety of unnatural senses, her head glows in the microwave spectrum with a gentle radiance of polarised emissions spread across a wide range of channels.

And he wanted to be with Ursula as free as with himself, single and clear and cool, yet balanced, polarised with her.