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Definitions: Galvanize |
GalvanizeVerb1. To stimulate to action : "..startled him awake.". 2. Cover with zinc; as of steel, for example. 3. Stimulate by administering a shock; as of muscles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "galvanize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Note: Galvanize \Gal"va*nize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Galvanized; pr. vb. noun Galvanizing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | To coat with zinc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Galvanize. |
Excitation | Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Galvanize |
| English words defined with "galvanize": Galvanized. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Galvanize" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkish (galvanized). |
| Play | Caption |
 | Crush; metal; metallic; galvanized; galvanization; galvanize. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The expected 125 participants should galvanize research efforts for the next years. (references) | |
Economic History | Fiji | The farmers' main tool of influence has been their ability to galvanize widespread boycotts of the sugar industry, thereby crippling the economy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Galvanize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Galvanize" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
galvanize | 17 |
galvanize stock tank | 4 |
galvanize shock tooth | 2 |
cold galvanize | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "galvanize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | galvanizoj (electroplate, plate), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), elektrizoj (electrify, thrill). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلفن, نبه بالتيار الكهربائي, غلون يكامن, طلى بالزنك, ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съживявам (animate, awake, enliven, pull round, raise, rally, reanimate, regenerate, renovate, resurrect, resuscitate, revive, revivify, wake), галванизирам (dip, plate, zinc), поцинковам (zinc), подбуждам (abet, actuate, excite, foment, incite, instigate, motivate, prod, prompt, provoke, raise, urge on). (various references) | |
Chinese | 镀" (galvanise, galvanising, Galvanized, galvanizing, Zinced, Zincing, Zincked, Zincking). (various references) | |
Czech | galvanizovat, podnítit (prompt, provoke, quicken), nadchnout (electrify, enthuse). (various references) | |
Dutch | galvaniseren (electroplating, electro-plating, galvanizing, plate, plating, plating-up, zinc, zinc coating), verzinken (plate, zinc). (various references) | |
Farsi | ابکاری فلزی کردن (Plate), اب فلزی دادن , بابرق اب طلایانقره دادن به . (various references) | |
Finnish | galvanoida. (various references) | |
French | galvaniser. (various references) | |
German | galvanisieren (electrodeposition, electroplate, electroplating, galvanisation, galvanization, galvanizing, plate, plating, zinc), verzinken (dovetail, galvanizing, grass on, plate, squeal on, to dovetail, zinc, zinc coating, zinced, zink-coating). (various references) | |
Greek | γαλβανίζω (electroplate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"קפיץ (jolt, promote, spring, startle), ל'לון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | galvanizál (electroplate, metallize, to electrodeposit, to electroplate, to galvanize, to metallize, to plate), felvillanyoz (electrify, Energize, to electrify, to energize, to enliven, to galvanize, to thrill). (various references) | |
Italian | galvanizzare (galvanise, plate, zinc). (various references) | |
Manx | galvaanaghey (galvanization), cur annym ayns. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alvanizegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galvanizar (electroplate, plate glass, zing), galvanização (galvanisation, galvanization, galvanizing, plating, zinc coating), excitar (agitate, calorify, disgruntle, electrization, enlace, excite, exciting, ferment, fire alarm, flurry, flush, fluster, incense, incite, inflammability, intrigue, irritate, kindle, Kittle, move, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir, stir up, thrill, thurify, waken, whet), estimular (abet, accelerate, actuate, arouse, awake, encourage, energy, excite, exhortation, fillister, flatterer, flush, impel, incite, inspire, inspissate, irritate, jog, kindle, nurture, press agent, promote, put forward, quicken, rouse, stimulate, stir up, urge, vivify, waken, whet). (various references) | |
Romanian | galvaniza (electroplate, Energize, zinc), electriza (electrify, thrill), dinamiza (actuate, rouse, stimulate). (various references) | |
Russian | гальванизировать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | galvanizovati, podstaći (abet, enforce, exhort, fire, foment, goad, incite to, induce, instigate, pique, spark, stir, stoke, whet). (various references) | |
Spanish | galvanizar (electroplate). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppliva (cheer up, comfort, renew), galvanisera (electroplate). (various references) | |
Turkish | galvanizlemek (sherardize), galvanik akımla tedavi etmek, elektrik çarpmış gibi olmak, canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references) | |
Ukranian | гальванізувати (electroplate), оцинковувати (zinc). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "galvanize": galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizers, galvanizes. (additional references) | |
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"Galvanize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alvanez, Galgani, galvani, galvanise, galvinize, galvonize, Glavnoye. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "galvanize" (pronounced ga"lvunī'z) |
| 4 | -u n ī' z | agonize, aluminize, antagonize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, disorganize, euthanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, ionize, lionize, mechanize, organize, patronize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, womanize. |
| 3 | -n ī' z | fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-v-z" | |
-2 letters: leaving, vaginae, vaginal, vealing. | |
-3 letters: agnail, agnize, alevin, alvine, anlage, galena, gavial, genial, glaive, lavage, laving, lazing, linage, vagile, vagina, valine, veinal, venial, vineal. | |
-4 letters: again, agave, agaze, agile, alane, alang, algae, algin, alien, align, aline, alive, angel, angle, anile, anvil, avail, avian, azine, elain, galea, ganev, gavel, given, glaze, glean, ingle, lagan, lanai, levin, liana, liane, liang, ligan, linga, liven, naevi, naive, naval, navel, nival, vagal, vegan, venal, vinal. | |
-5 letters: agin, alae, alan, alga, anal, anga, anil, azan, egal, elan, evil, gaen, gain, gala, gale, gane, gave, gaze, gien, give, glen, glia, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lava, lave, laze, lean, leva, lien, line, ling, live, nail, nave, nazi, nevi, vagi, vail, vain, vale, vane, vang, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vial, viga, vile, vina, vine, zeal, zein, zing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-v-z" | |
+1 letter: galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes. | |
+2 letters: galvanizers. | |
+4 letters: overanalyzing. | |
+5 letters: evangelization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 76 61 6E 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-.. ...- .- -. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101100 01110110 01100001 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l v a n i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 0076 0061 006E 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416778886780759271 |
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