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Meaning of "melanize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MELANIZE

melanize  [ˈmɛləˌnaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELANIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Melanize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb melanize in English.

WHAT DOES MELANIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of melanize in the English dictionary

The definition of melanize in the dictionary is to turn into melanin, or to cause the deposition or production of melanin in. Other definition of melanize is to darken or blacken due to the formation of melanin.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MELANIZE

PRESENT

Present
I melanize
you melanize
he/she/it melanizes
we melanize
you melanize
they melanize
Present continuous
I am melanizing
you are melanizing
he/she/it is melanizing
we are melanizing
you are melanizing
they are melanizing
Present perfect
I have melanized
you have melanized
he/she/it has melanized
we have melanized
you have melanized
they have melanized
Present perfect continuous
I have been melanizing
you have been melanizing
he/she/it has been melanizing
we have been melanizing
you have been melanizing
they have been melanizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I melanized
you melanized
he/she/it melanized
we melanized
you melanized
they melanized
Past continuous
I was melanizing
you were melanizing
he/she/it was melanizing
we were melanizing
you were melanizing
they were melanizing
Past perfect
I had melanized
you had melanized
he/she/it had melanized
we had melanized
you had melanized
they had melanized
Past perfect continuous
I had been melanizing
you had been melanizing
he/she/it had been melanizing
we had been melanizing
you had been melanizing
they had been melanizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will melanize
you will melanize
he/she/it will melanize
we will melanize
you will melanize
they will melanize
Future continuous
I will be melanizing
you will be melanizing
he/she/it will be melanizing
we will be melanizing
you will be melanizing
they will be melanizing
Future perfect
I will have melanized
you will have melanized
he/she/it will have melanized
we will have melanized
you will have melanized
they will have melanized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been melanizing
you will have been melanizing
he/she/it will have been melanizing
we will have been melanizing
you will have been melanizing
they will have been melanizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would melanize
you would melanize
he/she/it would melanize
we would melanize
you would melanize
they would melanize
Conditional continuous
I would be melanizing
you would be melanizing
he/she/it would be melanizing
we would be melanizing
you would be melanizing
they would be melanizing
Conditional perfect
I would have melanize
you would have melanize
he/she/it would have melanize
we would have melanize
you would have melanize
they would have melanize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been melanizing
you would have been melanizing
he/she/it would have been melanizing
we would have been melanizing
you would have been melanizing
they would have been melanizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you melanize
we let´s melanize
you melanize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to melanize
Past participle
melanized
Present Participle
melanizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MELANIZE


agonize
ˈæɡəˌnaɪz
colonise
ˈkɒləˌnaɪz
colonize
ˈkɒləˌnaɪz
decolonise
diːˈkɒləˌnaɪz
decolonize
diːˈkɒləˌnaɪz
dehumanize
diːˈhjuːməˌnaɪz
euthanize
ˈjuːθəˌnaɪz
harmonize
ˈhɑːməˌnaɪz
humanize
ˈhjuːməˌnaɪz
ionize
ˈaɪəˌnaɪz
Italianize
ɪˈtæljəˌnaɪz
modernize
ˈmɒdəˌnaɪz
organize
ˈɔːɡəˌnaɪz
polonize
ˈpɒləˌnaɪz
recolonise
riːˈkɒləˌnaɪz
recolonize
riːˈkɒləˌnaɪz
reorganize
riːˈɔːɡəˌnaɪz
revolutionize
ˌrɛvəˈluːʃəˌnaɪz
synchronize
ˈsɪŋkrəˌnaɪz
westernize
ˈwɛstəˌnaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELANIZE

melanian
melanic
melanin
melanisation
melanism
melanist
melanistic
melanite
melanitic
melanization
melanoblast
Melanochroi
melanochroic
Melanochroid
melanochroous
melanocyte
melanogeneses
melanogenesis
melanoid
melanoma

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELANIZE

Americanize
avianize
Balkanize
Christianize
disorganize
galvanize
japanize
mechanize
Mohammedanize
plebeianize
puritanize
recognize
republicanize
Romanize
Russianize
sectarianize
unhumanize
urbanize
volcanize
vulcanize
womanize

Synonyms and antonyms of melanize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «melanize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MELANIZE

Find out the translation of melanize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of melanize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «melanize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

melanize
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

melanize
570 millions of speakers

English

melanize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

melanize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

melanize
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

melanize
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

melanize
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

melanize
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

melanize
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melancarkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

melanize
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

melanize
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

melanize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Melanize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

melanize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

melanize
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुरूस्ती करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

melanız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

melanize
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

melanize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

melanize
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

melanize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

melanize
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

melanize
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

melanize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

melanize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of melanize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANIZE»

The term «melanize» is normally little used and occupies the 124.437 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANIZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «melanize» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «melanize» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about melanize

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELANIZE»

Discover the use of melanize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to melanize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... 8 infamous, melanize, shameful, sinister, smuggled; 9 blackened, blackness, felonious, nefarious, pitch-dark; 10 achromatic, calamitous, contraband, disastrous, inglorious, of a deep dye, pitch- black, scandalous, villainous; 11 black- market, ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
2
Ecological Aspects for Application of Genetically Modified ...
(c) Maintenance cost: effect of selecting Aedes aegrpti during 10 generations for early or late pupation on the mosquito's ability to melanize an inoculated Sephadex bead. The percentage of mosquitoes that were able to melanize a bead ...
W. Takken, T.W. Scott, 2003
3
Insect Pathology V1: An Advanced Treatise
Some larvae, in which the cells surrounding the imaginal buds and nerve cord melanize very rapidly, show no invasion of the fat body, and Shatoury quotes these cases as additional evidence that the fat bodies are invaded by cells coming ...
Edward Steinhaus, 2012
4
IITA Annual Report
The failure to completely melanize a larva may support the hypothesis that the host's hemocytes have only limited capacity to melanize, especially if early instars are attacked. In our second experiments when mealybugs were attacked ...
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 1983
5
Studies on immune responses in Plasmodium-melanizing and ...
A simple depletion of critical components may be responsible for the change in the ability of refractory An. gambiae to melanize beads over time. As mosquitoes age, levels of phenol oxidase decrease (Jianyong et al., 1992), although in Ae.
Jaesun Chun, 2000
6
Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology
seeming, elongated, leaf-like forms; and at the same time the macrophage-like cells generally show an increased tendency to melanize, sometimes doing so en masse. As with the loss of fat and disruption of fat-body cells during their i ...
‎1975
7
The Philosophical Magazine
“It [the district] includes the following strata: {'5 Upper calcareous grit, containing fossils , resembling those in No. 7. Summits and I 6 Coralline oolite, marked by corals, echini, edges of the plagiostomae, melanize, &c. tabular hills- I 7 Lower ...
‎1831
8
Transactions of the Geological Society of London: S.2: Vol. 1-5
3 Plate V. fig. 1 Mill or River remains at Cold Hill Aberford: in a few and in the descending p. 110 five species of Melanize Forhabres medicinal Gornigo bed. country. They are read living shell Park Plate IV won western edge mere Plate VII . fig.
‎1829
9
Tomato Diseases: Identification, Biology and Control: A ...
452 Humicola sp. produces discrete phialides in vitro which are perpendicular to the mycelium and produce chains of. conidia. 453 Aleuriospores are also formed in vitro. At first hyaline, they melanize gradually. They are no different from ...
Dominique Blancard, 2012
10
The Jak-Stat Pathway in Hematopoiesis and Disease
However, given that adults are able to melanize foreign objects, crystal cells may exist in low numbers or may be induced to diffetentiate from precursor cells. Altetnatively, a cell type other than the crystal cells may be capable of inducing the ...
Alister C. Ward, 2002

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELANIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term melanize is used in the context of the following news items.
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Who Knew? Testicle Color Matters
"We hypothesize that this is because of the costs of producing melanin, which may mean that the only animals that melanize their testes are ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 11»

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