Anneal
[ə-NEEL]
Part of speech: verb
Origin: Old English, 12th century
1.
Heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work.
2.
(Biochemistry) Recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form.
Examples of Anneal in a sentence
"Rather than painting his stained glass, Paul chose to anneal the colors into the glass."
"At the workshop on silversmithing, we learned how to anneal the silver in order to make it less brittle."
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