geologize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To study the geology of a location in the field.
Example Sentences
- "...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny, may geologize with full security..."
- "We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats."
- "We continued northwards in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize."
- "There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning. Here I would botanize or geologize at my will."
- "...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil..."
- "And between the intervals of eating fruit, we will geologize on the way home, with this little bit of paper to show us where we are."
Etymology
From geology + -ize.