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anneal

verb
/əˈniːl/

Etymology

From Middle English anelen, onelen, from Old English onǣlan (“to burn, ignite, set fire to, consume, heat, enlighten, incite, inflame, inspire, kindle”), from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on”) + Proto-Germanic *ailijaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn”). The double-N spelling may have arisen by analogy with Latinate verbs like announce, annex, and annul. The word is related to Old English onāl (“that which is burnt, burning; incense”), Old English āl (“fire, burning”), Icelandic eldur (“fire”), Swedish eld (“fire, flame”), Danish ild (“fire”).

  1. derived from *h₂eydʰ-✻
  2. derived from *ailijaną✻
  3. derived from *ana✻
  4. inherited from onǣlan
  5. inherited from anelen

Definitions

  1. To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and…

    To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.

  3. To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary…

      To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.

      • The 5′ junction is checked using a target gene-specific primer of ~21 nucleotides, which anneals upstream of the cassette integration site, together with a primer which anneals downstream of the first loxP site in the PCR cassette.

    2. To strengthen or harden.

      • The experience annealed them, strengthening their resolve.

    3. An act of annealing.

      • Additional information obtained from counting krypton-85 released during the anneals shows that only fractions of a per cent of the theoretical amount of gas are released […]

    4. Alternative form of anele (“anoint”).

      • MABEL: Is he to die, unshriven – unannealed?

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Derived

annealable, annealer, annealment, galvanneal, misanneal, nonannealed, nonannealing, postannealed, preanneal, preannealed, reanneal, unannealed

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA