calcifying
present participle ofcalcify
calcify
verb
uk/ˈkæl.sɪ.faɪ/us/ˈkæl.sə.faɪ/[IorT]
tobecomehard or make something hard,especiallyby theadditionofsubstancescontainingcalcium:
Foetalbonesbeginto calcify at about 13weeks.
He has aformofarthritisthat calcifies thespine.
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(ofideas,systems,methods, etc.) tobecomefixedanddifficulttochangeover aperiodoftime:
Historians are given tofirmopinionsthat intimecan calcifyintorigidones.
Tightcliquesgrewand calcified over theyears, andstrangerswereregardedwithhostilewariness.
Physical & chemical processes
- absorbable
- absorptive
- absorptive capacity
- acidification
- addition reaction
- condense
- evaporate
- evaporation
- excitability
- excitation
- excite
- exergonic
- nuclear fission
- oxidize
- recondense
- redox
- refraction
- rehydrate
- reliquefy
- solidify
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Keeping and staying the same
Examplesofcalcifying
calcifying
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
In cases where a patient presentedcalcifyingtendinitis, an open acromioplasty with lime deposit dissection was performed.
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The patients demonstrated clinical evidence of chronic tendinitis of the supraspinatus muscle, some withcalcifyingtendinitis.
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In cases ofcalcifyingtendinitis, the locating was carried out by axial view x-ray.
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Punk was quicklycalcifying, and the hungriest minds were already moving on.
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It is the most melancholy of all experience to recognise the hardening,calcifyingprocess which inevitably seems to supervene upon a sentence of five or six years or more.
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Calcium carbonate is vital tocalcifyingorganisms such as shellfish, corals, and coccolithophores (a type of phytoplankton).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The accumulation of ions is driven by ion pumps packed within thecalcifyingepithelium.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Calcifyingorganisms use calcium carbonate to produce shells, skeletons and tests.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.First, they are the earliest knowncalcifyingorganisms (organisms that built shells out of calcium carbonate).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While the full ecological consequences of these changes in calcification are still uncertain, it appears likely that manycalcifyingspecies will be adversely affected.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Organisms from many phyla produce calcium carbonate skeletons, so organismal processes vary widely, but the effect of physical conditions on water chemistry impacts allcalcifyingorganisms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Also, changes in the ecological success ofcalcifyingorganisms caused by ocean acidification may affect the biological pump by altering the strength of the hard tissues pump.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This makes it more difficult for marinecalcifyingorganisms, such as coral and some plankton, to form biogenic calcium carbonate, and such structures become vulnerable to dissolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These small living bacterial cells are distinct from the purported nanobacteria orcalcifyingnanoparticles, which were proposed to be living organisms that were 0.1 m in diameter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Corals andcalcifyingmacroalgae such as coralline red algae andcalcifyinggreen algae are extremely sensitive to ocean acidification because they build their hard structures out of calcium carbonate.
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- in-a-stew
- in attendance
- in-attendance
- inattention
- inattentive
- inattentively
- inaudibility
- inaudible
- inaudibly
- inaugural
- inaugural address
- inaugural edition
- inaugural event
- inaugural race
- inaugural season
- inaugural speech
- inaugurate
- inaugurated
- inaugurating
- inauguration
- Inauguration Day
- inauguration-day
- inauspicious
- inauspiciously
- inauspicious start