winterize
English
Alternative forms
- winterise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
winterize (third-person singular simple present winterizes, present participle winterizing, simple past and past participle winterized)
- (transitive) To prepare (something) for winter weather.
- 2021, Freezing Temps Are Coming; It’s Time To Winterize Your Home, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, December 31 2021
- Temperatures are expected to plummet over the weekend, and aside from grabbing a coat, experts say there’s some things you should do to winterize your home.
- 2021, Freezing Temps Are Coming; It’s Time To Winterize Your Home, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, December 31 2021
- (transitive) To remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not go cloudy in the winter.
- 1990, David R. Erickson (editor), (World Conference Proceedings) Edible Fats and Oils Processing: Basic Principles and Modern Practices, page 103:
- Some oils which are frequently winterized to produce salad oil are: refined and lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil and some varieties of rapeseed oil.
- The continuous miscella winterizing process takes from 45 min to 1 hr to produce +15 hr cold test oil.
- 1990, David R. Erickson (editor), (World Conference Proceedings) Edible Fats and Oils Processing: Basic Principles and Modern Practices, page 103:
Derived terms
- winterisation, winterization
- winterised, winterized
- winterising, winterizing
- winteriser, winterizer
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