geologizev.
/dʒɪˈɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /dʒiˈɑləˌdʒaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To make geological researches; esp. to spend time in a locality examining its geological features.
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geologize1814
1814 L.-M. Hawkins Rosanne I. x. 115 He had geologised and mineralogised.
1826 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 69 He has gone to geologize and volcanologize and so forth in Auvergne.
1887 C. Darwin Life & Lett. I. 365 While geologizing in a railway cutting..he was run over by a train.
1906 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 68 He took those of his classes who cared to join him on long walking trips,..botanizing, geologizing and collecting the mammals, birds, fishes and reptiles of the neighborhood.
1921 E. R. G. R. Evans South with Scott xi. 139 A week's food supply to complete and extend our surveys, and in Debenham's case to ‘geologise’.
1983 Listener 22 Sept. 25/1 In Uganda, Simon Winchester was geologising.
2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten xviii. 222 He had gone geologizing to South Africa as a young man.
2. transitive. To examine (a locality, formation, etc.) geologically; to study (something) as a geologist does.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [verb (transitive)]
geologize1827
1827 A. Sedgwick Let. 15 July (1890) I. viii. 301 During the day we were geologising the coast from the deck of the steamer.
1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks viii. 272 A gentleman who geologised the Ilfracombe district obtained many specimens.
1883 Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 393 The world is so rapidly getting geologized and botanized.
1933 Times 24 Aug. 10/4 Geological faults..may be discovered in air photographs of areas which have been already geologized on the ground without success.
2005 Business Wire (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 Aug. The cover sedimentary rocks..must be carefully geologised and prospected for uranium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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