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# galvanise

«galvanise» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shock or excite them into acting quickly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (galvanise, galvanises, galvanised, galvanising); US spelling galvanize

### meaning for a pupil

1) To galvanise people means to shock or excite them into acting quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#m1)

2) To galvanise iron or steel means to coat it with zinc so that it does not rust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#m2)

3) (science, old) To galvanise once meant to give something an electric shock, from the scientist Luigi Galvani. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, galvanising is a way to stop rusting: a zinc layer protects the iron underneath, as on buckets, fences and nails. In stories and news, a speech or event that galvanises people makes them suddenly work together. Phrases: galvanise into action, galvanised steel, galvanised bucket.

### examples

- The fence posts are made of galvanised steel so they will not rust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x1)
- Galvanising coats iron with a layer of zinc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x2)
- The captain's speech galvanised the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x3)
- The flood galvanised the whole town into action. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x4)
- We tested whether a galvanised nail rusts in salty water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x5)
- The coach hoped to galvanise the players at half-time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x6)
- The farmer filled a galvanised bucket with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/#x7)

### note

UK and Australian spelling: galvanise; US and Canadian spelling: galvanize. Past: galvanised. It comes from the name Galvani, an Italian scientist. Galvanised metal is not rust-proof forever; the zinc slowly wears away.

### In the corpora

- [Paint stops rust until it is scratched; galvanised steel has a zinc coat that protects the iron even at a scratch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/37-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «galvanise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galvanise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.