Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 24 Apr 2003 09:47:34 -0600 |
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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 09:09, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:46:06AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > On the other hand, "canonicalize", while strange and new, unambiguously > > means (b). > > > > Is there an already-existing word which means (b)? > > % webster normalize > nor-mal-ize \'no[0xC7]r-me-,l[0xF5]^-z\ vt -ized; -iz-ing > (1865) > 1: to make conform to or reduce to a norm or standard > 2: to make normal (as by a transformation of variables) > 3: to bring or restore (as relations between countries) to a normal > condition
Thanks Al. I've been looking for a good English substitute for "rapprochement" (in the spirit of Freedom Fries). Sense 3 shows that "normalize" is clearly a candidate, but it lacks the same panache. ;)
Steven
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