Soak vs Saturates - What's the difference?
soak | saturates |
(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
(label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
(label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
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, chapter=4, title= To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
(label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
(label) To absorb; to drain.
An immersion in water etc.
* "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
(slang, British) A drunkard.
(Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
(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 soak and saturates
is that soak is to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it while saturates is third-person singular of saturate.As a noun soak
is an immersion in water etc.soak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Their land shall be soaked with blood.
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
Noun
(en noun)- I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
Anagrams
* * * English ergative verbssaturates
English
Verb
(head)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.