Saturate vs Enrich - What's the difference?
saturate | enrich |
To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
* 1815 , in the Annals of Philosophy , volume 6, page 332:
* Macaulay
To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
To make (someone) rich or richer.
To adorn, ornate more richly.
To improve the state of something.
To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
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(physics) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify
As verbs the difference between saturate and enrich
is that saturate is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid) while enrich is to make (someone) rich or richer.saturate
English
Verb
(saturat)- Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas,
- 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 .
- One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
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* ----enrich
English
Verb
(es)- Hobbies enrich lives.
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