SULFATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulfate mean? 

• SULFATE (noun)
  The noun SULFATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt or ester of sulphuric acid

  Familiarity information: SULFATE used as a noun is very rare.

• SULFATE (verb)
  The verb SULFATE has 1 sense:

1. convert into a sulfate

  Familiarity information: SULFATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULFATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of sulphuric acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sulfate; sulphate

Hypernyms ("sulfate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sulfate"):

barium sulfate; barium sulphate; blanc fixe (a white insoluble radiopaque powder used as a pigment)

copper sulfate; copper sulphate; cupric sulfate; cupric sulphate (a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide)

magnesium sulfate (a salt of magnesium)

SLS; sodium lauryl sulfate; sodium lauryl sulphate (a caustic detergent useful for removing grease; although commonly included in personal care items (shampoos and toothpastes etc.) it can irritate skin and should not be swallowed)

sodium sulfate; sodium sulphate (a solid white bitter salt used in manufacturing glass and paper and dyes and pharmaceuticals)

white vitriol; zinc sulfate; zinc sulphate; zinc vitriol (a colorless water-soluble powder; used as a mordant or to preserve wood or for the electrodeposition of zinc)

• SULFATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sulfate    ... he / she / it sulfates   
Past simple: sulfated   
Past participle: sulfated   
-ing form: sulfating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into a sulfate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "sulfate" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

It includes the drugs doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin), bleomycin sulfate, vincristine sulfate, and etoposide.

(ABVE, NCI Dictionary)

It includes the drugs doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin), bleomycin sulfate, vinblastine sulfate, and dacarbazine.

(ABVD, NCI Dictionary)

Rising sea levels, for example, would result in increased sulfate, which could fuel greater rates of anaerobic oxidation.

(Methane-eating microorganisms help regulate emissions from wetlands, NSF)

A synthetic sulfated bis(lactobionic acid amide) derivative and heparin analogue with anticoagulant activity.

(Aprosulate, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes the drugs doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin), bleomycin sulfate, vincristine sulfate, etoposide, prednisone, and cyclophosphamide.

(ABVE-PC, NCI Dictionary)

Characteristic minerals resulting from such subglacial volcanism on Earth include zeolites, sulfates and clays.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

This allele, which encodes arylsulfatase A protein, plays a role in the catabolism of cerebroside sulfate.

(ARSA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The sulfate salt form of amphetamine, a synthetic substance related to natural sympathomimetic amines.

(Amphetamine Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the metabolism of cerebroside sulfate.

(ARSA Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the 846 epitope present on the chondroitin sulfate chains of aggrecan in a biological specimen.

(Aggrecan Chondroitin Sulfate Epitope 846 Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)