MINERALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mineralize mean? 

• MINERALIZE (verb)
  The verb MINERALIZE has 2 senses:

1. convert into a mineral substance

2. transform (a metal) into an ore

  Familiarity information: MINERALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINERALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mineralize    ... he / she / it mineralizes   
Past simple: mineralized   
Past participle: mineralized   
-ing form: mineralizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into a mineral substance

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transform (a metal) into an ore

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The mineralized osseous tissue that gives rigidity to the bones and forms its honeycomb-like three-dimensional internal structure.

(Bone Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

When the protein mixture mineralizes, it becomes bone.

(Osteoid, NCI Thesaurus)

More than three-fourths of the plant nitrogen uptake was from organic nitrogen that had to be mineralized, which was well predicted by the STBA level.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A radiopharmaceutical consisting of the sodium salt of fluorine F 18 fluoride with radioisotopic and bone mineralizing activities.

(Fluorine F 18 Sodium Fluoride, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of odontogenic epithelium and adjacent myxoid tissue, fibrous stroma, and mineralized dental tissues.

(Odontoameloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of fibrous tissue and a mineralized component which may be woven bone, lamellar bone, or cementum-like material.

(Ossifying Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mineralized deposit that forms on the teeth or dental prostheses.

(Dental Calculus, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration of calcium-41 chloride aqueous solution, calcium-41 is preferentially taken up by osteoblasts, which generate mineralized osteoid containing calcium.

(Calcium-41 Chloride Aqueous Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign fibrous neoplasm characterized by a mineralized component (woven bone, lamellar bone, or cementum-like material).

(Ossifying Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Osteoblasts mineralize bone matrix by promoting hydroxyapatite crystal formation and growth in the interior of membrane-limited matrix vesicles (MVs) and by propagating the crystals onto the collagenous extracellular matrix.

(Bone Mineralization Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)