saturate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturāre (“to fill full”), from satur (“full”).
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saturate (third-person singular simple present saturates, present participle saturating, simple past and past participle saturated)
- (transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- Synonyms: drench, impregnate, soak
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
- 1815, Annals of Philosophy, volume 6, page 332:
- Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow, saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
- (transitive, figurative) To fill thoroughly or to excess.
- Modern television is saturated with violence.
- (transitive, chemistry) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
- One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
- (transitive, optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
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Translations edit
to cause to become penetrated or soaked
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to become penetrated or soaked
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(chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold
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Noun edit
saturate (plural saturates)
- (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
- 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 363:
- Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.
- 1973, Paul Nels Rylander, Fourth Conference on Catalytic Hydrogenation and Analogous Pressure Reactions:
- We estimate from Table 4 that the average deuterium content in the saturate is approximately 1.1 when palladium is the catalyst, 1.6 when platinum is the catalyst, and 1.7 when rhodium is the catalyst. If there were only deuterium on the surface, the saturate would average 2 deuteriums.
Adjective edit
saturate (comparative more saturate, superlative most saturate)
- Saturated; wet.
- 1785, William Cowper, “The Task”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 23:
- The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
- (entomology) Very intense.
- saturate green
Further reading edit
- “saturate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “saturate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “saturate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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saturate
- adverbial present passive participle of saturar
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Etymology 1 edit
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saturate
Participle edit
saturate f pl
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
saturate
- inflection of saturare:
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sa.tuˈraː.te/, [s̠ät̪ʊˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sa.tuˈra.te/, [sät̪uˈräːt̪e]
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saturāte
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saturate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of saturar combined with te