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Saturate vs Soal - What's the difference?

saturate | soal |

As a verb saturate

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

As a noun soal is

(uk|dialect) a dirty pond or soal can be (the fish).

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.

    Related terms

    * sate * satis * satisfy

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    soal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sol, sule, from (etyl) . Compare (sully). More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A dirty pond.
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (the fish)
    • (Webster 1913) ----