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Definition of Curing
1. Noun. The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization. "He tested the set of the glue"
Specialized synonyms: Congealment, Congelation
Generic synonyms: Action, Activity, Natural Action, Natural Process
Group relationships: Plastination
Derivative terms: Cure, Harden, Set, Solidify, Solidify, Solidify, Solidify
Definition of Curing
1. Verb. (present participle of cure) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curing
1. cure [v] - See also: cure
Medical Definition of Curing
1. 1.Removing all traces of a disease from the body so that the body is perfectly healthy again. 2. A process of improving the flavour, colour, tenderness, and shelf life of a meat, such as by using smoke, spices, and chemicals. 3. Making a finished product out of a raw material by using heat or chemicals, such as tanned leather or vulcanised rubber. 4. Causing the loss of a plasmid from a bacterial culture or the loss of a dormant virus which has inserted itself into the bacterial genome (a lysogenised virus). (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curing
Literary usage of Curing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"To gather and cure one barn, containing two thousand pounds after curing, requires—
Gathering. 3 men one day, at 75 cents $2 25 17 women and children, ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"PICKING AND curing. PROCESS OF GATHERING. The prune is picked from the tree when
fully ripe ... GRADING AND curing. Prunes are usually graded before drying, ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1893)
"NOTE ON GALILEAN FISH-curing. IN Prof. GA Smith's masterly account of the Lake
of Galilee in the EXPOSITOR for May, he lays stress upon the important local ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1895)
"In the slaughtering of cattle and hogs, and the subsequent curing and preservation
of the meat, ... Pork intended for curing should never be frozen. ..."
5. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"The losses of the maize plant, both in field curing and ensiling, are largely in
the carbohydrates other than fiber. 349. Time of Harvesting will depend ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"M. DAT ATS, in a learned paper on the different modes of alleviating and curing
varicose veins, objects, on various grounds, to all the plans hitherto ..."
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