Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - saturate
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Saturate
saturate
~ v 1 formal to make something very wet; soak1 (2) (Water poured through the hole, saturating the carpet.) 2 to put a large number of people or things into a particular place, especially so that you could not add any more (The area was saturated with police to prevent further trouble.) 3 saturate the market to offer so much of a product for sale that there is more than people want to buy 4 technical to mix as much of a solid into a chemical mixture as possible
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(saturates, saturating, saturated) 1. If people or things saturate a place or object, they fill it completely so that no more can be added. In the last days before the vote, both sides are saturating the airwaves... As the market was saturated with goods and the economy became more balanced, inflation went down. VERB: V n, be V-ed with n 2. If someone or something is saturated, they become extremely wet. If the filter has been saturated with motor oil, it should be discarded and replaced. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
2.
I. transitive verb (-rated; -rating) Etymology: Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, from satur well-fed — more at satire Date: 1538 1. to satisfy fully ; satiate 2. to treat, furnish, or charge with something to the point where no more can be absorbed, dissolved, or retained water ~d with salt 3. a. to fill completely with something that permeates or pervades book is ~d with Hollywood — Newgate Callendar b. to load to capacity 4. to cause to combine until there is no further tendency to combine Synonyms: see soak • saturator noun II. adjective Date: 1782 ~d ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
3.
v.tr. 1 fill with moisture; soak thoroughly. 2 (often foll. by with) fill to capacity. 3 cause (a substance, solution, vapour, metal, or air) to absorb, hold, or combine with the greatest possible amount of another substance, or of moisture, magnetism, electricity, etc. 4 cause (a substance) to combine with the maximum amount of another substance. 5 supply (a market) beyond the point at which the demand for a product is satisfied. 6 (foll. by with, in) imbue with or steep in (learning, tradition, prejudice, etc.). 7 overwhelm (enemy defences, a target area, etc.) by concentrated bombing. 8 (as saturated adj.) a (of colour) full; rich; free from an admixture of white. b (of fat molecules) containing the greatest number of hydrogen atoms. Derivatives saturate adj. literary. saturable adj. saturant n. & adj. Etymology: L saturare f. satur full ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) предельное [насыщенное] соединение; насыщенный продукт; продукт насыщения насыщать, сатурировать 2) пищ. газировать; карбонизировать ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. хим. предельное, насыщенное соединение 2. пропитывать, промачивать to saturate with smth. —- пропитывать чем-л. you'll be saturated if you go out in this rain —- ты до нитки промокнешь, если выйдешь в этот дождь to saturate a sponge with water —- намочить (пропитать) губку водой a style saturated with affectation —- стиль, полный жеманства 3. пронизывать, наполнять he is saturated with superstition —- он целиком во власти суеверия he is saturated with conceit —- он воплощенное самомнение we lay in the sun until our bodies felt saturated with the heat —- мы лежали на солнце, пока не прожарились насквозь to saturate oneself in smth. —- уйти с головой во что-л., быть поглощенным (увлеченным) чем-л. to saturate oneself in a subject —- углубиться в изучение вопроса (предмета) 4. хим. насыщать, сатурировать 5. насыщать to saturate the way —- воен. достигать предельной плотности движения транспорта по дороге 6. воен. подавлять (оборону); подвергать массированному удару 7. ав. наносить бомбовый удар по площади со сплошным поражением ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. v. 1) насыщать, пропитывать (тж. перен.); he is saturated with Greek history - он поглощен изучением истории древней Греции; Our clothes were saturated with the sudden heavy rain. 2) chem. насыщать, сатурировать 3) насыщать; The market was saturated with the fruit. The room was saturated with smoke. 4) подавлять (оборону противника); подвергать массированному удару Syn: see permeate 2. adj. poet. промокший, пропитанный влагой ...Англо-русский словарь
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