Crossword clues for saturate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.] Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
Dries his feathers saturate with dew.
--Cowper.
The sand beneath our feet is saturate
With blood of martyrs.
--Longfellow.
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saturated; p. pr. & vb. n. Saturating.] [L. saturatus, p. p. of saturare to saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See Satire.]
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To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
--Macaulay.Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind.
--Emerson. (Chem.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "to satisfy, satiate," from Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare "to fill full, sate, drench," from satur "sated, full," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (see sad). Meaning "soak thoroughly" first recorded 1756. Marketing sense first recorded 1958. Related: Saturated; saturating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid). 2 To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
WordNet
v. cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material, etc.) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" [syn: impregnate]
Wikipedia
Saturate may refer to:
- Saturate (Breaking Benjamin album), 2002
- Saturate (Gojira album), 1999
- Saturate (Jeff Deyo album), 2002
- " Electronic Battle Weapon 8", a song by The Chemical Brothers, a shorter version of which was released under the name "Saturate"
Saturate Band
Saturate is the debut studio album by American post-grunge/ alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin. It was released on August 27, 2002 in North America through Hollywood Records and May 18, 2004 in Europe. The album features three singles, including " Polyamorous", " Skin", and "Medicate". The album was certified gold by the RIAA on September 15, 2015.
Saturate is the third demo release by Gojira (then Godzilla). All tracks except "Saturate" were re-released on their debut studio album Terra Incognita.
The demo was recorded in 1998 and released for sale in 1999. It was entirely self-produced by Gojira. It contains some of the first demos of the band, such as "On The B.O.T.A." and "Clone".
Usage examples of "saturate".
It was saturated with blood by the time 1 fumbled out the ampoule of No-shock, laid it against her arm and pushed the button.
Saturated with Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus -- Drying Apparatus, in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created, Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere -- Drying by Means of Superheated Steam, without Air --Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material, Losses of Heat -- Index.
By Christmas, the syrup formed from the juice, the sugar, and the spirit, will have covered and saturated the fruit, and then a couple of tablespoonfuls will not only make an agreeable dessert liqueur, but will act as an astringent cordial of a very pleasant sort.
Ahf Noot and four of his assistants entered the first section of the operating theatre and remained there several hours where they were subjected to waves of bactericides and air saturated with antiseptic emanations until their very breath became sterilized.
The heady fluid played beguiling tricks as the air cooled and dried it, leaving a hot, penetrating residue that saturated deeply into her fluttery senses.
Treat this with excess of bisulphate of sodium, then saturate with sulphuretted hydrogen until metals are thrown down as sulphides.
In consequence of their endlessly varied, constantly recurring, intensely earnest speculations and musings over this contrast of finite restlessness and pain with infinite peace and blessedness, a contrast which constitutes the preaching of their priests, saturates their sacred books, fills their thoughts, and broods over all their life, the Orientals are pervaded with a profound horror of individual existence, and with a profound desire for absorption into the Infinite Being.
It is the story, told in great detail and in a style intensely saturated with phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness, of a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity.
The Homilies are completely saturated with stoicism, both in their ethical and metaphysical systems, and are opposed to Platonism, though Plato is quoted in Hom.
As the barrel of the pistol rose towards her, Deb made a small and breathy noise, not a scream but saturated in fear, and Wimbarton let out a squawk, propelling the mountebank across the room with an almighty shove.
Water began to pool as the thin layer of permeable soil above the level of the subterranean permafrost became saturated.
With each succeeding edition of his books, Montignac put more stress on the difference between bad lipids and good lipids, between saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated fats, not for losing more weight but for keeping your heart healthy.
It can be so woven as to be almost as porous as wool, and to retain that porousness even when saturated with perspiration.
Matter, the Kind so evil as to saturate with its own pravity even that which is not in it but merely looks towards it.
Matter brings to it, by its decline into Matter, by its very attention no longer to Essence but to Process--whose principle or source is, again, Matter, the Kind so evil as to saturate with its own pravity even that which is not in it but merely looks towards it.