LIQUEFY (liquefied)

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Irregular inflected form: liquefied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquefy mean? 

• LIQUEFY (verb)
  The verb LIQUEFY has 3 senses:

1. become liquid

2. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating

3. become liquid or fluid when heated

  Familiarity information: LIQUEFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUEFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they liquefy    ... he / she / it liquefies   
Past simple: liquefied   
Past participle: liquefied   
-ing form: liquefying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become liquid

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew

Hypernyms (to "liquefy" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

liquefiable (capable of being liquefied)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

liquefy; liquidise; liquidize; liquify

Context example:

liquefy the silver

Hypernyms (to "liquefy" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

liquefiable (capable of being liquefied)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become liquid or fluid when heated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

flux; liquefy; liquify

Context example:

the frozen fat liquefied

Hypernyms (to "liquefy" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "liquefy"):

condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)

dethaw; dissolve; melt; thaw; unfreeze; unthaw (become or cause to become soft or liquid)

fuse (become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

liquefiable (capable of being liquefied)

 Context examples 

Predictably enough, that intense heat caused the rocks to liquefy into molten lava, but once the lava cooled, analysis revealed that the chemical absences we find on Earth aren't an anomaly.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This species is motile using peritrichous flagella, non-spore forming, indole and urease negative, noncapsulated, produces a yellow pigment, liquefies gelatin, reduces nitrate, hydrolyzes esculin, and is Voges-Proskauer reaction positive.

(Pantoea agglomerans, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-spore forming, catalase and indole negative, does not liquefy gelatin, hydrolyze hippurate, digest meat, or reduce nitrate, but does ferment glucose, glycogen, trehalose, and starch, as well as hydrolyze esculin.

(Olsenella uli, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-fermenting, liquefies gelatin, reduces nitrate, does not hydrolyzes esculin or starch, nonhemolytic and catalase negative.

(Eggerthella lenta, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is indole negative, liquefies gelatin, does not reduce nitrate and does not produce acid from lactose or ribose.

(Clostridium histolyticum, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of numerous unctuous combustible substances that are liquid or can be liquefied easily on warming, are soluble in ether but not in water, and leave a greasy stain on paper or cloth.

(Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, catalase and urease negative, reduces nitrate, produces butyric acid, gas from peptone-yeast-glucose medium and propionate from lactate, coagulase and indole, and does not ferment carbohydrates or liquefy gelatin.

(Peptoniphilus indolicus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, produce butyric acid and gas in peptone yeast extract medium with glucose, urease negative, and does not reduce nitrate, produce coagulase, hydrolyze esculin or starch, liquefy gelatin, ferment carbohydrates, or produce propionate from lactate.

(Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, nonhemolytic, produces hydrogen sulfide and a black pigment that disappears upon exposure to air, indole and esculin negative, and does not reduce nitrate, ferment carbohydrates, liquefy gelatin or serum, or utilize lactate, starch or hippurate.

(Peptococcus niger, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole, coagulase, and urease negative, produces gas from peptone-yeast-glucose medium, is moderately saccharolytic, but does not reduce nitrate, hydrolyze starch or esculin, produce propionate from lactate, or liquefy gelatin.

(Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, NCI Thesaurus)