different between desiccate vs hydrate

English

Etymology

From Latin d?sicc?re (“to dry completely, dry up”) +? -ate (verb suffix indicating acting in the specified manner). D?sicc?re is derived from d?sicc? (“to desiccate, dry up; to drain dry”) (from d?- (prefix meaning ‘completely, to exhaustion’) + sicc? (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-) + -?re.

The adjective is derived from Latin d?sicc?tus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of d?sicc?: see above. The noun is derived from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• Verb and adjective:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s?ke?t/, (archaic) /d??s?ke?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s?ke?t/
• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s?k?t/
• Hyphenation: de?sic?cate

Verb

desiccate (third-person singular simple present desiccates, present participle desiccating, simple past and past participle desiccated)

1. (transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry. [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: dehydrate, (obsolete) exiccate, exsiccate, parch

   Antonyms: hydrate, moisten, moisturize, wet
2. (transitive) To preserve by drying. [from late 16th c.]
3. (intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.

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Translations

Adjective

desiccate (comparative more desiccate, superlative most desiccate)

1. Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, dessicated.

   Synonym: dried

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Noun

desiccate (plural desiccates)

1. A substance which has been dessicated, that is, had its moisture removed.

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References

Further reading

• dessication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cadetcies

Latin

Verb

d?sicc?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?sicc?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hydrate, coined by Joseph-Louis Proust, from Ancient Greek ???? (húd?r, “water”) + -ate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h??dr?t, IPA^(key): /?ha?d?e?t/

Noun

hydrate (plural hydrates)

1. (chemistry) A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
2. (inorganic chemistry, rare) Water.

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Translations

See also

• hydrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• water of crystallization

Verb

hydrate (third-person singular simple present hydrates, present participle hydrating, simple past and past participle hydrated)

1. (transitive) To take up, consume or become linked to water.

   A lotion can hydrate the skin.

2. (slang) To drink water.
3. (programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables

Synonyms

• (to add water to): bewater

Coordinate terms

• caffeinate

Derived terms

• dehydrate
• hydrate or diedrate
• hydration
• rehydrate

Translations

Anagrams

• thready

French

Etymology

hydr- +? -ate

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.d?at/

Noun

hydrate m (plural hydrates)

1. (chemistry) hydrate

Verb

hydrate

1. first-person singular present indicative of hydrater
2. third-person singular present indicative of hydrater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of hydrater
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of hydrater
5. second-person singular imperative of hydrater

Further reading

• “hydrate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).