specularize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make specular or reflective.
    — Unlike most of the producing portion of the range, these ores and near-ores were subjected to mountain-building processes subsequent to their formation. These processes tend to specularize, or harden, the hematite.
  2. To make visible; to elucidate, bring to light, or put on display.
    — Rising to a perspective that would dominate the totality, to the vantage point of the greatest power, he thus cuts himself off from the bedrock, from his empirical relationship with the matrix that he claims to survey to specularize and to speculate.
  3. To make visual; to transform into or represent as visible image.
    — This temptation to specularize Canada in terms of its visibly exotic people must be avoided, largely because what this does is allow white power centres to continue to function, invisibly.
  4. To view voyeuristically; to objectify as an object to be looked at.
    — Yet the overwhelming force of the drive to specularize is manifested by the fact that the second impulse is not concretized through the representation of 'ugly' or even 'unattractive' women.

词形变化

specularizes present,singular,third-person specularizing participle,present specularized participle,past specularized past specularise alternative

词汇关系

相关词
hold a mirror to

词源

From specular + -ize.
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