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# pasteurise

verb (pasteurise, pasteurises, pasteurised, pasteurising); US spelling pasteurize

«pasteurise» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To heat a drink or food, like milk or juice, to a set temperature for a short time to kill harmful germs, then cool it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#m1)

### In the lessons

A science and food word: named after the French scientist Louis Pasteur. In lessons on microbes and food safety, pupils learn that milk is pasteurised (about 72°C for 15 seconds) so that it is safer and lasts longer. Labels say «pasteurised» or «unpasteurised».

### Examples

- Milk is pasteurised to kill harmful bacteria. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#x1)
- Louis Pasteur showed how heating could stop germs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#x2)
- The factory pasteurises the apple juice before bottling it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#x3)
- Pregnant women are told to avoid some unpasteurised cheeses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#x4)
- Pasteurising does not boil the milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#x5)
- We learnt how farmers pasteurise milk in science. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/#x6)

### Note

Regular verb. -ise in UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ, -ize in US/Canada. A myth: pasteurising does not kill every single microbe (that is sterilising); it kills the harmful ones, which is why milk still goes off in the end. Capital P only for the name Pasteur.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pasteurise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteurise/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pasteurise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pasteurise.html) on Mova free.