winterize
verbEtymology From winter + -ize.
1
To prepare (something) for winter weather.
- Temperatures are expected to plummet over the weekend, and aside from grabbing a coat, experts say there’s some things you should do to winterize your home.2021, Freezing Temps Are Coming; It’s Time To Winterize Your Home, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, December 31 2021
2
To remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not become cloudy in the winter.
- Some oils which are frequently winterized to produce salad oil are: refined and lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil and some varieties of rapeseed oil. The continuous miscella winterizing process takes from 45 min to 1 hr to produce +15 hr cold test oil.1990, David R. Erickson (editor), (World Conference Proceedings) Edible Fats and Oils Processing: Basic Principles and Modern Practices, page 103
- Derived terms
- winterization, winterized, winterizer, winterizing