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Definitions: Saturate |
SaturateVerb1. Make (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material, etc.) saturated. 2. Infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol". 3. Fill, soak, or imbue totally; "saturate the bandage with disinfectant". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saturate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Means fatty acids without double bond. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SaturateSynonyms: imbue (v), impregnate (v), soak (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate. |
Moisture | Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water). |
Satiety | Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Saturate |
| English words defined with "saturate": Albumenize ♦ barrage, barrage fire, battery, Bedrench, bombardment ♦ charge ♦ Naphthalize ♦ Oversaturate ♦ Saturant, Saturating, shelling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "saturate": asphalt-machine operator ♦ boucle finisher ♦ COLORING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ dewpoint, dust-suppression system ♦ IMPREGNATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, impregnator ♦ knitted-garment finisher, knitted-goods shaper ♦ presser-and-blocker, knitted goods, presser-and-shaper, knitted goods ♦ SANITARY-NAPKIN-MACHINE TENDER, saturated air, semidry mining, SILICA-SPRAY MIXER, SLASHER TENDER, slurry-plant operator ♦ TIN-WHIZ-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ WATER-TRUCK DRIVER II. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "saturate": satire. (references) |
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Screenplays | Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.) | |
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 | Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | Thoroughly saturate hair with lice medication. (references) | |
Treatment of anoxia and hypoxia consists of establishing an adequate airway as soon as possible, using enough oxygen to saturate the blood, supporting the cardiovascular system as needed, and preventing or treating pneumonia. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Saturate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Saturate" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "saturate": saturate oneself in ♦ saturate with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
saturate | 11 |
benjamin breaking saturate | 3 |
lyrics saturate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "saturate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qull (dabby, drench, get wet, gruel, mash, porridge, soak, soppy, wet), njom (baste, dabble, dew, douse, Dunk, macerate, moisten, Rait, ret, soak, souse, steepen, wet), ngop (cloy, glut, impregnate, palm off, sate, satiate), bombardoj rëndë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturation, slake, soak, souse, steep, temper, wash, water), إتخم (cloy, cram, glut, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, stoke, stuff, surfeit), إرتوى, أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, drench, feed, flood, full, gratify, please, requite, sate, satiate, slake, soak, steep), روى (irrigate, narrate, quench, recite, recount, relate, report, retail, retrace, slake, sluice, story, tell, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разрушавам напълно (reduce to rubble), насищам (glut, imbue, impregnate, penetrate, permeate, satiate, slake), наситен (impregnate, replete, saturated), накисвам (drench, macerate, soak, sodden, souse, steep), напоявам (drench, imbue, impregnate, irrigate, penetrate, soak, water), просмуквам се в (penetrate), пропивам се в. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 饱' (saturated, Saturating, saturation), 漬 (soak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | saturovat, promoèit (drench), nasytit (feed, impregnate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mættet fedtsyre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verzadigen, doortrekken (lengthen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | saturi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سیرکردن (Cloy, Englut, Glut, Revolve, Roam, Sate, Satiate), اغشتن (Imbue, Indoctrinate, Inoculate, Smear, Welter), اشتباه کردن (Blunder, Fumble, Goof, Miscarry, Miscue, Mistake, Slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kyllästää (impregnate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | saturer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sättigen (be filling, feed, fill, make replete, sate, satiate, satisfy, to be filling, to fill, to sate, to satisfy, to saturate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουσκεύω (damp, drench, macerate, ret, soak, steep, to moisten, wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשרות (drench, immerse, soak, sop, souse, steep), ל"רוות (irrigate, sop, souse, water), ל"רטיב ל'מרי (drench, soak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | telít (imbue, to impregnate, to prime, to saturate, to steep), impegrál, átitat (drench, impregnate, permeate, pervade, to carbolize, to impregnate, to saturate, to sop, to steep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memenuhi (fill, gratify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saturare (fill, glut, stuff), inzuppare (dip, drench, Dunk, get soaked, soak, souse, wet), acido grasso saturo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 含ます (to include, to instruct, to make one hold something in the mouth, to make one understand, to saturate, to soak, to suckle), 含ませる (to include, to instruct, to make one hold something in the mouth, to make one understand, to saturate, to soak, to suckle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふくます (to include, to instruct, to make one hold something in the mouth, to make one understand, to saturate, to soak, to suckle), ふくませる (to include, to instruct, to make one hold something in the mouth, to make one understand, to saturate, to soak, to suckle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 포"시키십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | saiaghey (satisfy), lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, fill out, flood tide, flow, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, pad, rise, spasm, wax, wax as moon), baih (drown, elide, elision, flood, inundation, submerge, submersion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aturatesay saturar (charge, cloy, glut, impregnate, Pall, sate, satiate, soak), saturado (impregnate, impregnated, saturated, waterlogged), intenso (acute, alive, deep, exquisite, high altitude, hot, intense, intensive, out-argue, quick, saturated, smart, strong, vivid), impregnar (engrained, imbibe, imbue, impregnate, interfuse, leavening, line of action, penetrate, pervade), encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distensible, fill, fill in, fill up, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, peltate, pep, perfuse, stuff, stuffing, suffuse, to fill up), ácidó gordo saturado. (various references) satura o soluţie, satura (glut, imbue, impregnate, replete). (various references) насыщать (fill, imbue, impregnate, medicate, sate, sates, satiate). (various references) zasititi vlagom, zasititi (become full, feed, fill, satiate), zasićen (satiate, saturated), prožet (impregnate, instinct), natopiti (drench, imbrue, soak, steep, wash, wet). (various references) saturar, saturado (saturated, sodden). (various references) indränka, genomsyra (imbue, leaven, permeate, steep). (various references) sırılsıklam etmek (drench, wet through), gına getirmek (cloy, sate, satiate), emdirmek (impregnate, make suck), doyurmak (feed, fill, sate, satiate, satisfy, steep), bombalamak (batter, bomb, bombard, coventrize, prang, shell, strafe), ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet). (various references) інтенсивний (bad, intense, intensive, saturated), насичувати (charge, imbue, impregnate, medicate, sate, satiate), пронизувати (pierce through, tear), промочувати, промоклий наскрізь. (various references) no (satiate, saturated), đậm (saturated, stewed), đẫm. (various references) trwytho (imbue, steep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inebria, inebriaberis, inebriabitur, inebriabo, inebriabuntur, inebriamini, inebrians, inebriantem, inebriare, inebriari, inebriasti, inebriat, inebriate, inebriati, inebriatus, inebriavi, inebriavit, inebriemur, inebriemus, insaturabilia, saturaberis, saturabimini, saturabitur, saturabo, saturabunt, saturabuntur, saturamini, saturare, saturaremur, saturari, saturata, saturatae, saturati, saturatur, saturatus, saturavi, saturavit, saturemus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "saturate": saturated, saturates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "saturate": monounsaturate, oversaturate, supersaturate, unsaturate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "saturate": monounsaturated, monounsaturates, oversaturated, oversaturates, polyunsaturated, subsaturated, supersaturated, supersaturates, undersaturated, unsaturated, unsaturates. (additional references) | |
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"Saturate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asterite, astrate, cataratie, Gautrait, naturata, satarate, satura, Satyrane, Saurat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saturate" (pronounced sa"kherā't) |
| 3 | -er ā' t | accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, separate, tolerate, venerate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tuateras. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: stature, tuatera. | |
-2 letters: astute, attars, aurate, reatas, stater, statue, strata, taster, tatars, taters, tauter, tetras, treats, truest, urates, utters. | |
-3 letters: areas, aster, attar, aurae, auras, aures, rates, reata, saute, stare, start, state, strut, sturt, sutra, sutta, tares, tarts, taste, tatar, tater, tates, tauts, tears, teats, testa, tetra, treat, trets, trues, trust, urase, urate, ureas, ursae, utter. | |
-4 letters: area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, aura, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rest, rets, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, star, stat, stet, suer, suet, sura, sure, tare, tars, tart, tate, tats, taus, taut, tear, teas, teat, test, tets, tret, true, tsar, tuts, urea, ursa, user, utas. | |
-5 letters: aas, are, ars, art, ate, att, ear, eat, eau, era, ers, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, rue, rut, sae, sat, sau, sea, ser, set, sue, tae, tar, tas, tat, tau, tea, tet, tut, use, uta, uts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: maturates, saturated, saturates. | |
+2 letters: autostrade, gastrulate, gratulates, masturbate, metatarsus, restaurant, statuaries, tablatures, transudate, traumatise, ultraheats, unsaturate. | |
+3 letters: adulterants, adulterates, antinatures, aquatinters, articulates, attenuators, autorotates, denaturants, gastrulated, gastrulates, masturbated, masturbates, restaurants, strangulate, supernatant, superstrata, transudates, traumatised, traumatises, traumatizes, uncastrated, unsaturated, unsaturates. | |
+4 letters: acculturates, adulterators, appurtenants, atheromatous, barbiturates, entablatures, magistrature, matriculates, oversaturate, particulates, portmanteaus, postgraduate, quarterstaff, ratatouilles, restaurateur, salutatories, strangulated, strangulates, subsaturated, supernatants, thaumaturges, transmutable, transvaluate, triangulates, ultrarealist, untranslated. | |
+5 letters: adulterations, congratulates, denaturations, disarticulate, inarticulates, magistratures, misarticulate, naturopathies, oversaturated, oversaturates, postgraduates, quartermaster, quarterstaffs, quarterstaves, rearticulates, recapitulates, renaturations, restauranteur, restaurateurs, southeastward, supersaturate, tetradynamous, thaumaturgies, transmutative, transvaluated, transvaluates, ultradistance, ultramontanes, ultrarealists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 74 75 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- - ..- .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a t u r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0074 0075 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367868784678671 |
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