different between nitrate vs nitrify

English

Etymology

From French nitrate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: n?'tr?t, IPA^(key): /?na??t?e?t/, [?na???t??e??t]

Noun

nitrate (plural nitrates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of nitric acid.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

nitrate (third-person singular simple present nitrates, present participle nitrating, simple past and past participle nitrated)

1. To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate

Related terms

• nitration
• nitrator

Translations

Further reading

• nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• intreat, iterant, natrite, nattier, tainter, tartine, tertian

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.t?at/

Noun

nitrate m (plural nitrates)

1. nitrate

   Synonym: (rare) azotate

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• attenir, entrait, étirant, inertât, itérant, rentait, tartine

Italian

Verb

nitrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of nitrare
2. second-person plural imperative of nitrare
3. feminine plural of nitrato

Anagrams

• entrati, nettari, ritenta, tartine, tirante

English

Verb

nitrify (third-person singular simple present nitrifies, present participle nitrifying, simple past and past participle nitrified)

1. (transitive) To treat, or react with nitrogen or a nitrogen-containing compound.
2. (transitive) To convert ammonia or similar compound to a nitrate by oxidation, especially by the action of a microorganism.
3. (intransitive) To become nitre.

Antonyms

• denitrify

Related terms

• nitrification