SCORIFY

  

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SCORIFY

Definition: SCORIFY

SCORIFY

Transitive verb

1. To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Scorify \Sco"ri*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Scorified; present participle verb or noun Scorifying.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: SCORIFY

DomainDefinitions

Metallurgy

To convert an unwanted element of the metal bath in order to remove it from it. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: SCORIFY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Calefaction

Burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SCORIFY

English words defined with "SCORIFY": Scorified, Scorifying. (references)
Etymologies containing "SCORIFY": Scorification. (references)

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Modern Translations: SCORIFY

Language Translations for "SCORIFY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

шлаковам. (various references)

   

Czech

  

oddìlit (detach, disjunct, dispart, fractionate, mark off, part, partition, segregate, separate, sequester, sever, split off). (various references)

   

Danish

  

forslagge. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verslakken. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saostaa kuonaan. (various references)

   

French

  

scorifier. (various references)

   

German

  

verschlacken (become clogged, to slag). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθαρίζω από σκωρίαν, σκωριοποιώ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

salakosít (slag, to flux). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orifyscay

   

Portuguese

  

escorificar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

шлаковать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pretvoriti u zguru. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escorificar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förslagga. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

eritip cürufunu çıkarmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

шлакувати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SCORIFY

Derivations

Words beginning with "SCORIFY": scorifying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SCORIFY"

Words rhyming with "SCORIFY" (pronounced 'Sco"ri*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Demideify, Denitrify, Devitrify, Dezincify, Diabolify, Dignify, Disacidify, Disdeify, Disedify, Disglorify, Disguisedfy, Disqualify, Dissatisfy, Dissyllabify, Diversify, Divinify, Domify, Dulcify, Duncify, Emulsify, Endamnify, Eternify, Exemplify, Fecundify, Fe-licify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, Hornify, horrify, Humanify, Ignify, indemnify, Indignify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy, Labefy, Ladify, lenify, Madefy, malignify, Mercify, Mercurify, Metrify, minify, modify, mollify, Mummify, Mundify, Munify, Mystify, Neatify, Netify, Nitrify, Nobilify, Notify, Nugify, Nullify, Objectify, Obstupefy, Omnify, Overmagnify, Pacify, Personify, Preachify, Presignify, Pretypify, Putrify, ratify, Recarnify, rectify, Reedify, Refortify, Remodify, Repacify, Repurify, revivify, rubify, Russify, saccharify, Salify, Salsafy, salsify, sanctify, Sanguify, saponify, scarify, signify, simplify, specify, speechify, squiffy, Stellify, Stiltify, Storify, stratify, stultify, stupefy, Suavify, Subdiversify, syllabify, Tabefy, taffy, Tepefy, Terrestrify, terrify, Tipsify, Torpify, Torrefy, transmogrify, uglify, Undeify, Unglorify, unify, Unnotify, Unqualify, Varify, Vilify, Vivify, Zincify. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCORIFY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-o-r-s-y"

-2 letters: coifs, coirs.

-3 letters: coif, coir, corf, cors, cory, cosy, coys, cris, fico, firs, fisc, foci, foys, orcs, rifs, rocs, rosy, scry, sori.

-4 letters: cis, cor, cos, coy, cry, fir, for, foy, fro, fry, icy, ifs, orc, ors, rif, roc, sic, sir, soy, sri.

-5 letters: if, is, of, or, os, oy, si, so, yo.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-i-o-r-s-y"
 

+3 letters: scorifying.

 

+4 letters: ferociously, fibrocystic, fractiously.

 

+5 letters: confiscatory, forensically, overclassify, satisfactory, vociferously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCORIFY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 4F 52 49 46 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000110 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 004F 0052 0049 0046 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53374952434059

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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