saturate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
    — Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.
动词 v.
  1. To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid). transitive
    — Rain saturated their clothes.
  2. To fill thoroughly or to excess. figuratively,transitive
    — Modern television is saturated with violence.
  3. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold. transitive
    — One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
  4. To render pure, or of a colour free from white light. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Saturated, wet, soaked.
    — 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.
  2. Saturated, wet, soaked.; Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with]. broadly,poetic
    — 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.
  3. Very intense.
    — saturate green
  4. Satisfied, satiated. obsolete
  5. Complete, perfect. obsolete
  6. Saturated. obsolete

词形变化

saturates present,singular,third-person saturating participle,present saturated participle,past saturated past saturates plural more saturate comparative most saturate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
desaturate nonsaturating oversaturate presaturate resaturate saturatable saturative saturator subsaturating supersaturate undersaturate unsaturate
相关词
sate satis satisfy saturation

词源

词源 1
The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
词源 2
The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
词源 3
The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
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