Word Meanings - PASTEURIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140º F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.
Related words: (words related to PASTEURIZATION)
- CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - DEVISABLE
1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. - CHECKREIN
1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - PREVENTABLE
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases. - PREVENTINGLY
So as to prevent or hinder. - DEVISAL
A devising. Whitney. - PASTEURIZER
One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid. - PREVENT
1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow - CHECKLATON
1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser. - PASTEURIAN
Of or pertaining to Pasteur. - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - CHECKERBERRY
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry . - PREVENTABILITY
The quality or state of being preventable. - TEMPERATURE
Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or - CONTAINANT
A container. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - ACID PROCESS
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process. - DISTEMPERATURE
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures - TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - BARREL PROCESS
A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent. - CONTEMPERATURE
The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.