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Saturated   /sˈætʃərˌeɪtəd/  /sˈætʃərˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Saturated

adjective
1.
Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance.  Synonym: concentrated.
2.
Used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled.
3.
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black.  Synonym: pure.


Saturate

verb
(past & past part. saturated; pres. part. saturating)
1.
Cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
2.
Infuse or fill completely.  Synonym: impregnate.



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"Saturated" Quotes from Famous Books



... perceiving it in the same way that he packs it away and continues to go naked. The Orientals, who disdain the use of chairs and prefer to sit cross-legged on the floor, can never perceive a chair just as we do who use chairs daily, and to whom chairs are so saturated with social ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts
... I defy the writers of the silver-fork school to write out of the style flippant. Read but one volume of —, and you will be saturated with it; but if you wish to go to the fountain-head, do as have done most of the late fashionable novel-writers, repair to their instructors—the lady's-maid, for flippancy in the vein spirituelle! ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... desiccated matter, half as broad as my nail and nearly as thick, after remaining for twenty-four hours under a bell-glass in an atmosphere saturated with water at the temperature of the human body, became supple—so much so as to be a little elastic. I could consequently dissect it, study it like a piece of fresh flesh, and put under the microscope each one of its parts that appeared different, ...
— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About
... small space. When, in a great mass of water, the particles at the surface acquire a different specific gravity, a superficial current is formed, which takes its direction towards the point where the water is coldest, or where it is most saturated with muriate of soda, sulphate of lime, and muriate or sulphate of magnesia. In the seas of the tropics we find, that at great depths the thermometer marks 7 or 8 centesimal degrees. Such is the result of the numerous experiments of commodore Ellis and of M. Peron. The temperature ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... again into the shriek and roar of the storm, bending their heads to its power, but indifferent in the already drenched condition of their clothing, to the rain. The saw-dust street was saturated like a sponge. They could feel the quick water rise about the pressure at their feet. From the invisible houses they heard a steady monotone of flowing from the roofs. Far ahead, dim in the mist, sprayed the light ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White


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