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SATURATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saturate mean?
• SATURATE (verb)
The verb SATURATE has 2 senses:
1. cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
2. infuse or fill completely
Familiarity information: SATURATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it saturates Past simple: saturated
Past participle: saturated
-ing form: saturating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "saturate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
saturation (the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Infuse or fill completely
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
impregnate; saturate
Context example:
Impregnate the cloth with alcohol
Hypernyms (to "saturate" is one way to...):
fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "saturate"):
medicate (impregnate with a medicinal substance)
alcoholise; alcoholize (treat or infuse with alcohol)
imbue; soak (fill, soak, or imbue totally)
ammonify (treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification)
thoriate (impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission)
stuff (treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting)
charge (saturate)
drench; imbrue (permeate or impregnate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sentence example:
They saturate the cloth with water and alcohol
Context examples
A saturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 6-carbon backbone.
(Caproic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A saturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 12-carbon backbone.
(Lauric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A saturated fatty acid with a 24-carbon backbone.
(Lignoceric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A saturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 10-carbon backbone.
(Capric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
However, some individual items contained more than twice the daily recommended amount for energy, fat, saturated fat, sugar or salt.
(Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food, University of Cambridge)
It is low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol.
(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)
In the study, researchers fed mice a high-fat diet, 60% of which was saturated fat, for 16 weeks.
(When Liver Immune Cells Turn Bad, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A naturally-occurring saturated fatty acid with nine carbon atoms.
(Nonanoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
Saturated fats are usually fats that come from animals.
(Nutrition, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A measurement of the partial pressure of oxygen when hemoglobin is half saturated in a biological specimen.
(P50 Oxygen Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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