Mobilize vs Galvanize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between mobilize and galvanize

is that mobilize is to make something mobile while galvanize is to coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means; to electroplate.

* (Commonwealth) mobilise

(mobiliz)

To make something mobile.

To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.

To become made ready for war.

* galvanise (mostly UK )

(galvaniz)

To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means; to electroplate.

To coat with rust-resistant zinc

To shock or stimulate into sudden activity

(archaic) To electrify.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.

* (to shock or stimulate) startle

* galvanization