Saturate vs Seep - What's the difference?
saturate | seep |
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.
a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface
moisture that seeps out; a seepage
A seafloor vent
As verbs the difference between saturate and seep
is that saturate is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid) while seep is to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings.As a noun seep is
a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (eg water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface.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.
