anneals
Meaning of anneals
verb, 3rd person present
- heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it.
copper tubes must be annealed after bending or they will be brittle
the chimneys of annealing furnaces
Dr Lowenstein, annealed to hostility, looked at me coolly
- recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form.
Old English onǣlan, from on + ǣlan ‘burn, bake’ from āl ‘fire, burning’. The original sense was ‘set on fire’, hence (in late Middle English) ‘subject to fire, alter by heating’.
Information about anneals
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of anneals is: anneal.
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Hyphenation of anneals
an-neals
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- anneals is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of anneals
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