saturate
verb
- fill to capacity
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsatjʊɹət/ / /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/ / /ˈsatjʊɹeɪt/ / /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/
adj
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).
- 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.”
- Saturated, wet, soaked.
“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.”
- Very intense.
“saturate green”
- Satisfied, satiated.
- Complete, perfect.
- Saturated.
noun
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).
- 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.”
“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.”
verb
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).
- To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
“Rain saturated their clothes.”
“After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.”
- To fill thoroughly or to excess.
“Modern television is saturated with violence.”
- 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.”
- To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.