hydrate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French hydrate, coined by Joseph-Louis Proust, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hydrate (plural hydrates)
- (chemistry) A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
- (inorganic chemistry, rare) Water.
Derived terms edit
- carbohydrate
- chloralhydrate
- chloral hydrate
- chlorohydrate
- cryohydrate
- decahydrate
- dihydrate
- docosahydrate
- dodecahydrate
- duodecahydrate
- ethyl hydrate
- gas hydrate
- hemihydrate
- heptahydrate
- hexadecahydrate
- hexahydrate
- hydratable
- hydratase
- hydrator
- hyperhydrate
- methane hydrate
- methyl hydrate
- monohydrate
- nonahydrate
- octadecahydrate
- octahydrate
- overhydrate
- oxyhydrate
- pentadecahydrate
- pentahydrate
- perhydrate
- prehydrate
- quadrihydrate
- semihydrate
- sesquihydrate
- tetracosahydrate
- tetrahydrate
- tricosahydrate
- tridecahydrate
- trihydrate
- undecahydrate
- underhydrate
Translations edit
solid compound containing or linked to water molecules
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See also edit
- hydrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- water of crystallization
Verb edit
hydrate (third-person singular simple present hydrates, present participle hydrating, simple past and past participle hydrated)
- (transitive) To take up, consume or become linked to water.
- A lotion can hydrate the skin.
- (slang) To drink water.
- (programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables
Synonyms edit
- (to add water to): bewater
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to absorb water
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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hydrate m (plural hydrates)
Verb edit
hydrate
- inflection of hydrater:
Further reading edit
- “hydrate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.