transmuting
present participle oftransmute
transmute
verb[IorT,usually+ adv/prep]
chemistryformalorspecializeduk/trænzˈmjuːt/us/trænsˈmjuːt/tochangesomethingcompletely,especiallyinto something different andbetter:
A fewcenturiesago alchemiststhoughtthey could transmuteleadintogold.
Plutonium transmutesinto/touraniumwhen it isprocessedin anuclearreactor.
Changing
- about-face
- about-turn
- alterable
- altered
- alternate
- chop
- commute
- modulation
- move on
- move the goalpostsidiom
- move with the timesidiom
- new
- pivot
- shakesomeoneup
- stead
- steep
- steepness
- sway
- switch up
- switcheroo
Examplesoftransmuting
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Even then skeptics peering into the mental laboratory from the outside regard it as something like thetransmutingof metals; the claims exceed the results.
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Parties institutionalized citizenship by organizing the electorate for the civic rituals of voting and bytransmutinginchoate demands into law and policy.
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Almost all alchemical treatments and operations were directed toward changing the properties of fusible bodies ortransmutingthem into each other.
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His manner oftransmutinghis sources using them as "clues" and "tools," and his use of analogies without much warning about his method create additional difficulty.
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Reprocessing offers the prospect of separating andtransmutingthe actinides, the long-lived radioactive components, to render them harmless by incineration.
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I am prepared to assert that it would not have been recognised as atransmutingact of generosity.
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The same point can be made about that other hoary old favourite, short-dated gilts, as a means oftransmutinghigher-taxed income into lower-taxed or usually non-taxed capital gains.
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The song was also pivotal intransmutingfolk rock into the new musical forms of psychedelia and raga rock.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1932, they bombarded lithium with high energy neutrons, electrons and protons and succeeded intransmutingit into helium and other chemical elements.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The secret oftransmutingone element into another, specifically base metals into gold or silver, was equally explored by both schools for obvious reasons.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These alchemists were more concerned with medical elixirs than withtransmutinglead into gold.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The process of treatment proceeds throughtransmutinginternalizations in which the patient gradually internalizes the selfobject functions provided by the therapist.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Much of the musical material focuses ontransmutingthe timbre of the instrument, often on a single pitch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The goose, it is learned, istransmutingone naturally occurring isotope of oxygen into gold.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Less frequently used capabilities include splitting atomic nuclei and manipulating subatomic particles (therebytransmutingchemical elements).
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