different between saturate vs saturated

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satur?tus, perfect passive participle of satur?re (“to fill full”), from satur (“full”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæt????e?t/

Verb

saturate (third-person singular simple present saturates, present participle saturating, simple past and past participle saturated)

1. To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
   • 1815, in the Annals of Philosophy, volume 6, page 332:

     Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]

2. (figuratively) To fill to excess.

3. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.

4. (optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

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Noun

saturate (plural saturates)

1. (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
   • 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, Academic Press (?ISBN), page 363

     Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.

Adjective

saturate (comparative more saturate, superlative most saturate)

1. Saturated; wet.
2. (entomology) Very intense.

Further reading

• saturate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• saturate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• saturate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• artuates, taurates, tuateras

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /satu?rate/

Verb

saturate

1. adverbial present passive participle of saturar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.tu?ra.te/

Adjective

saturate

1. feminine plural of saturato

Verb

saturate

1. second-person plural present indicative of saturare
2. second-person plural imperative of saturare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of saturare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.tu?ra?.te/, [s?ät????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.tu?ra.te/, [s?t?u????t??]

Verb

satur?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of satur?

English

Verb

saturated

1. simple past tense and past participle of saturate

Adjective

saturated (comparative more saturated, superlative most saturated)

1. (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
2. (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.

   Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet

4. (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
5. (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
6. (color) Having a high level of saturation.

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References

• saturated at OneLook Dictionary Search