Saturate vs Nourish - What's the difference?
saturate | nourish |
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.
(obsolete) A nurse.
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
* Bible, Is. xliv. 14
To support; to maintain.
* Shakespeare
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
To cherish; to comfort.
* Bible, James v. 5
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
* Bible, 1 Timothy iv. 6
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
(obsolete) To gain nourishment.
As verbs the difference between saturate and nourish
is that saturate is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid) while nourish is to feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.As a noun nourish is
(obsolete) a nurse.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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* ----nourish
English
Noun
(es)Verb
(es)- He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
- I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
- Ye have nourished your hearts.
- Nourished up in the words of faith.
- (Chaucer)
- (Francis Bacon)
