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saturate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  2.  (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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  saturate 
  v  1:  make  (a  chemical  compound,  vapour,  solution,  magnetic 
  material,  etc.)  saturated 
  2:  infuse  or  fill  completely;  "Impregnate  the  cloth  with 
  alcohol"  [syn:  {impregnate}] 
  3:  fill,  soak,  or  imbue  totally;  "saturate  the  bandage  with 
  disinfectant"  [syn:  {soak},  {imbue}] 




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