Maturates vs Saturates - What's the difference?
maturates | saturates |
(maturate)
To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
* Fuller
To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
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(saturate)
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.
As verbs the difference between maturates and saturates
is that maturates is (maturate) while saturates is .maturates
English
Verb
(head)maturate
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Verb
(maturat)- A tree may be maturated artificially.
saturates
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Verb
(head)saturate
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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.
