Crossword clues for saturated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saturated \Sat"u*ra`ted\, a.
Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
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(Chem.) Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.
Note: A saturated compound may exchange certain ingredients for others, but can not take on more without such exchange.
Saturated color (Optics), a color not diluted with white; a pure unmixed color, like those of the spectrum.
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.
Wiktionary
1 (context not comparable English) full; unable to hold or contain any more. 2 (context comparable English) soaked or drenched with moisture. 3 (context not comparable chemistry of a solution English) containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature. 4 (context chemistry English) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms. v
(en-past of: saturate)
WordNet
adj. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution" [syn: concentrated] [ant: unsaturated]
wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: drenched, soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping, soppy]
used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled; "saturated fats" [ant: unsaturated]
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black [syn: pure] [ant: unsaturated]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "saturated".
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.
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.
Each drip of calcareous water, even the tiniest droplet of moisture in the air, was saturated with calcium carbonate in solution, which was redeposited inside the cave.
He would have been appalled to learn that they refrained from doing so for fear of ingesting one of the poisons with which unclean humans were reputed to be saturated.
His fingers curved around his cock, stroking slowly as she dipped into her saturated slit.
Sleeping under a crude lean-to, squashed into a soggy mass between a large, wet husband and an equally large, equally wet nephew, listening to rain thrump on the branches overhead while fending off the advances of a immense and thoroughly saturated dog, is slightly less so.