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Geologizer vs Geologize - What's the difference?

geologizer | geologize |

As a noun geologizer

is a geologist.

As a verb geologize is

to study the geology of a location in the field.

geologizer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) A geologist.

    • geologize

    English

    Verb

    (geologiz)
  • To study the geology of a location in the field
  • * 1824 , The British Critic
    • ...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny , may geologize with full security...
  • * 1830 , "Geology", American Quarterly Review
  • *:We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.
  • * 1839 , , The Voyage of the Beagle
    • We continued northwards in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize .
  • * 1864 , , Journey to the Centre of the Earth
  • *:There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning. Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.
  • * 1869 , The Spectator , 27 March.
    • ...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...
  • * 2007 , Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children , ISBN 1425087612.
    • And between the intervals of eating fruit, we will geologize on the way home, with this little bit of paper to show us where we are.
  • * 2011 , , An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science , ISBN 0300154089.
    • Scott presumably foresaw this, which may explain his decision to geologize on the return trip once he lost priority at the pole.