Word Meanings - JASPERIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

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• JASPERATED
  mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• JASPERY
  Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• MONTHLY
  1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon. 2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• AGATIZE
  To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• CONVERTER
  A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• JASPER
  An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• CONVERT
  To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
• POLISHER
  One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison.
• POLISHING
  a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. A kind of hone
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• BIMONTHLY
  Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLY
  In an inconvertible manner.