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発音

verb

• (England) IPA: /ˈsatjʊɹeɪt/, /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/

noun, adjective

• (England) IPA: /ˈsatjʊɹət/, /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

   Synonyms: drench, impregnate, soak

   Rain saturated their clothes.

   After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.

   • 1815, 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, […]

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow, saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.

2. (transitive, figurative) To fill thoroughly or to excess.

   Modern television is saturated with violence.

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

   One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

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

名詞

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.

   • 1973, Paul Nels Rylander, Fourth Conference on Catalytic Hydrogenation and Analogous Pressure Reactions:

     We estimate from Table 4 that the average deuterium content in the saturate is approximately 1.1 when palladium is the catalyst, 1.6 when platinum is the catalyst, and 1.7 when rhodium is the catalyst. If there were only deuterium on the surface, the saturate would average 2 deuteriums.

形容詞

saturate (comparative more saturate, superlative most saturate)

1. Saturated, wet, soaked.
   • 1785, William Cowper, “The Task”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 23:

     The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.

   1. (by extension, poetic) Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with]. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
      • 1868, Robert Browning, “VI. Giuseppe Caponsacchi.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 226, line 1518:

        There she lay, […]
        Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun
        O' the morning that now flooded from the front
        And filled the window with a light like blood.

2. (entomology) Very intense.

   saturate green

3. (obsolete) Satisfied, satiated.
4. (obsolete) Complete, perfect.
5. (obsolete, chemistry) Saturated.

関連する語

Further reading

• “saturate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “saturate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “saturate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• taurates, tuateras

動詞

saturāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of saturō