hehkuttaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• anneal verb To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
• ash noun The gray powdery residue left after something has burned.
• blaze noun A large, fast-burning fire.
• glow verb To give off a steady light, often without a visible flame.

Senses

hehkuttaa is used for these senses in English:

• anneal (metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
• ash (ambitransitive, chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
• blaze (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
• glow (transitive) To make hot; to flush.

anneal — full definition

1. verb To heat something, usually metal, and then cool it slowly to make it less brittle and stronger.
2. verb To cool glass down gradually so that stress does not build up inside it.
3. verb To fix colored designs onto glass or another surface using heat.
4. verb (biology) To join two single strands of DNA or RNA together into a double strand.

ash — full definition

1. noun The gray powdery residue left after something has burned.
2. noun A hardwood tree of the genus Fraxinus, or its pale, tough timber.
3. noun The remains of a cremated body (usually plural, "ashes").

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