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Saturate vs Concentrate - What's the difference?

saturate | concentrate |

As verbs the difference between saturate and concentrate

is that saturate is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid) while concentrate is .

saturate

English

Verb

(saturat)
  • To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
  • * 1815 , in the 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,
  • * Macaulay
  • Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
    Rain saturated their clothes.
    After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated .
  • 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.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    concentrate

    English

    Verb

    (concentrat)
  • (ambitransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
  • to concentrate rays of light into a focus
    to concentrate the attention
    Let me concentrate !
  • To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense (qualifier, as opposed to 'dilute').
  • to concentrate acid by evaporation
    to concentrate by washing
  • To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
  • Population tends to concentrate in cities.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
  • To focus one's thought or attention (on).
  • Derived terms

    * concentrated

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A substance that is in a condensed form.