saturate

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
While individual spectral lines do indeed saturate, adding more carbon dioxide pushes the level of saturation higher in the atmosphere -- leading to additional heating of the surface.

View all »
Definitions (16)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (4)

  1. transitive verb To imbue or impregnate thoroughly: "The recollection was saturated with sunshine” (Vladimir Nabokov). See Synonyms at charge.
  2. transitive verb To soak, fill, or load to capacity.
  3. transitive verb Chemistry To cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
1 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (49)

  • But the computer models didn't believe such things existed, and didn't look for them—with the result that the models were found to "saturate" for large earthquakes, making it difficult to distinguish big ones from colossal ones. —  AnalogSFF,October2005
  • Dodge and Burn tend to lighten and darken indiscriminately where they are applied, and the Sponge tool tends to saturate or desaturate equally indiscriminately where used. —  Earthbound Light Photography Tips
  • While individual spectral lines do indeed saturate, adding more carbon dioxide pushes the level of saturation higher in the atmosphere -- leading to additional heating of the surface. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • ColorSplash uses three different colour brushes - original colour, red, and grey - allowing you to choose whether you want to saturate or desaturate. —  PC World
  • Of course, there is the option to over-saturate the colours in the dedicated art mode found on the dial - an interesting tool that can produce some quirky effects in-camera rather than in post-production. —  CNET Australia
More examples »
 

Tags

saturate hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 101 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

saturate:   saturated
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin saturāre, saturāt-, to fill, from satur, sated; see sā- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare (later Italian saturare = Spanish Portuguese saturar = French saturer,) fill full, from satur, full; akin to sat, satis, enough, and to English sad: see sad, sate.
  2. from Latin saturatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈsætʃjureɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recently looked up

pudding · near-certain · stefan · feedback · salmon

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

embodies · silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda