anneal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

   “I felt his strong bones anneal themselves to my own, his blood vent its bright tide into my veins, the semen of his testicles foam as it dashed in a torrent against mine.”

2. fiil To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
3. fiil To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

   “It was customary to beautify the Prow with Gold, and various ſorts of Paint and Colours: […] Several other Colours were alſo made uſe of, nor were they barely varniſh'd over with them, but very often anneal'd by Wax melted in the Fire, ſo as neither the Sun, Winds, or Water were able to deface them.”

4. fiil To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.

   “The 5′ junction is checked using a target gene-specific primer of ~21 nucleotides, which anneals upstream of the cassette integration site, together with a primer which anneals downstream of the first loxP site in the PCR cassette.”

5. fiil To strengthen or harden.

   “The experience annealed them, strengthening their resolve.”

6. isim An act of annealing.

   “Additional information obtained from counting krypton-85 released during the anneals shows that only fractions of a per cent of the theoretical amount of gas are released […]”

7. fiil Alternative form of anele (“anoint”).

   “MABEL: Is he to die, unshriven – unannealed?”