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CARBONISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carbonise mean?
• CARBONISE (verb)
The verb CARBONISE has 2 senses:
2. turn into carbon, as by burning
Familiarity information: CARBONISE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: carbonised
Past participle: carbonised
-ing form: carbonising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unite with carbon
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
carbonise; carbonize; carburise; carburize
Context example:
carburize metal
Hypernyms (to "carbonise" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
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Derivation:
carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Turn into carbon, as by burning
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
carbonise; carbonize
Context example:
carbonize coal
Hypernyms (to "carbonise" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
"Carbonise" entails doing...:
heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)
carbonisation (the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens))
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