English-Thai Dictionary

anneal

VT หลอม ให้ อ่อนตัว แล้ว ทำให้ เย็น ลง  lom-hai-on-tua-laeo-tham-hai-yen-long

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANNEAL

v.t. 1. To heat; to heat, as glass and iron for the purpose of rendering them less brittle, or to fix colors; vulgarly called nealing. This is done by heating the metal nearly to fluidity, in an oven or furnace, and suffering it to cool gradually. Metals made hard and brittle by hammering. by this process recover their malleability. The word is applied also to the baking of tiles.
2. To temper by heat; and Shenstone uses it for tempering by cold.

 

ANNEALED

pp. Heated; tempered; made malleable and less brittle by heat.

 

ANNEALING

ppr. heating; tempering by heat.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ANNEAL

An *neal ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Annealing. ]Etym: [OE. anelen to heat, burn, AS. an; an on + to burn; also OE. anelen to enamel, prob. influenced by OF. neeler, nieler, to put a black enamel on gold or silver, F. nieller, fr. LL. nigellare to blacken, fr. L. nigellus blackish, dim. of niger black. Cf. Niello, Negro. ]

 

1. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

 

2. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

 

ANNEALER

ANNEALER An *neal "er, n.

 

Defn: One who, or that which, anneals.

 

ANNEALING

ANNEALING An *neal "ing, n.

 

1. The process used to render glass, iron, etc. , less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

 

2. The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

anneal

an neal |əˈnēl əˈni (ə )l | ▶verb [ with obj. ] heat (metal or glass ) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it. • Biochemistry recombine (DNA ) in the double-stranded form following separation by heat. DERIVATIVES an neal er noun ORIGIN 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 ’; sense 1 dates from the mid 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

anneal

anneal |əˈniːl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 heat (metal or glass ) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it. 2 Biochemistry recombine (DNA ) in the double-stranded form. DERIVATIVES annealer noun ORIGIN 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 ’.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

anneal

an neal /əníːl /動詞 他動詞 1 〈ガラス 金属など 〉を焼きなます [戻す ].2 ｟まれ ｠〈精神など 〉を鍛える, 強化する .