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saturate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/ (England)
• /ˈsatjʊɹət/ (England)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. Saturated, wet, soaked.
   • 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. 1785, William Cowper, “The Task”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 23:
2. (broadly, poetic) Saturated, wet, soaked. ▸ Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with].
   • There she lay, […] Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun O' the morning that now flooded from the front And filled the window with a light like blood. 1868, Robert Browning, “VI. Giuseppe Caponsacchi.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 226, line 1518:
3. Very intense.
   • saturate green
4. (obsolete) Satisfied, satiated.
5. (obsolete) Complete, perfect.
6. (obsolete) Saturated.

Forms

Deriveds

desaturate · presaturate · subsaturating · saturator · nonsaturating · saturatable · undersaturate · supersaturate · saturative · resaturate · oversaturate · unsaturate

Relateds

satis · satisfy · saturation · sate

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saturate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/ (England)
• /ˈsatjʊɹət/ (England)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
   • Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate. 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 363:
   • 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. 1973, Paul Nels Rylander, Fourth Conference on Catalytic Hydrogenation and Analogous Pressure Reactions:

Forms

wikipedia: Middle English

saturate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈsatjʊɹeɪt/ (England)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/ (England)
• /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
   • Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […] 1815, Annals of Philosophy, volume 6, page 332:
   • Rain saturated their clothes.
   • After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
   • Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow, saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
2. (figuratively, transitive) To fill thoroughly or to excess.
   • Modern television is saturated with violence.
3. (transitive) 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.
4. (transitive) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

Forms

Synonyms

impregnate · drench · soak

Translations (52)

pl nasycać ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · ru насыща́ть ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · bg насищам ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · uk насити́ти (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · de sättigen (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · sh намо̀чити (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · ro satura ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · pl nasycić ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · hu telít (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · io saturar ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · es saturar (to fill thoroughly or to excess) · fa سیرشدن ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · sh namòčiti (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · ru пропи́тываться (to become penetrated or soaked) · fi kyllästää (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · pl wysycać ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · ru пропита́ть (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · pt saturar (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · pt saturar ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · de sättigen ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · sh нато̀пити (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · bg пропивам се (to become penetrated or soaked) · pl nasycać (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · pl nasycić się (to become penetrated or soaked) · pl wysycić ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · gd sàsaich (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · sh за̀ситити ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · uk просочи́ти (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · uk просо́чувати (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · pl wypełnić (to fill thoroughly or to excess) · eo saturi ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · el κορεννύω (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · hit 𒄩𒀸𒅆𒅅𒂵𒉡𒊻𒍣 (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · es saturar ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · fr saturer (to fill thoroughly or to excess) · pl nasycać się (to become penetrated or soaked) · sh natòpiti (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · no mette ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · es empapar (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · ru пропи́тывать (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · ru насы́титься (to become penetrated or soaked) · uk наси́чувати (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · ru насыща́ться (to become penetrated or soaked) · ru насы́тить ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold) · fi kastella läpimäräksi (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · pl wypełniać (to fill thoroughly or to excess) · no gjennomvæte (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · bg просмуквам се (to become penetrated or soaked) · fr saturer (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · ru пропита́ться (to become penetrated or soaked) · pl nasycić (to cause to become penetrated or soaked) · sh zàsititi ((chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold)

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