Anneal vs Lighting - What's the difference?
anneal | lighting |
(metallurgy) To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
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To strengthen or harden.
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
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, title= The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
The process of annealing metals.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb anneal
is (metallurgy) to subject to great heat, and then cool slowly for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.As a noun lighting is
the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.anneal
English
(Annealing)Alternative forms
*Verb
(en verb)- There was more than one way to anneal them with regards to resolve.
lighting
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Noun
(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings , so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?