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使饱和,使渗透,浸透,使充满,浸透的,饱度高的,深颜色的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saturated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Saturating}.] [L. saturatus, p. p. of saturare to
saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See {Satire}.]
1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or
soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast
expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the
moisture of the Atlantic. --Macaulay.
Fill and saturate each kind With good according to
its mind. --Emerson.
2. (Chem.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become
inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold;
as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.]
Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
Dries his feathers saturate with dew. --Cowper.
The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of
martyrs. --Longfellow.
资料来源 : WordNet®
saturate
v 1: cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic
material, etc.) to unite with the greatest possible
amount of another substance
2: infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with
alcohol" [syn: {impregnate}]