<B>saturated, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>soaked thoroughly; wet. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of colors) containing no white; of the greatest intensity. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Chemistry.) <DD><B> a. </B>that has combined with or taken up in solution the largest possible proportion of some other substance. <BR> <I>Ex. When the relative humidity reaches 100 per cent the air is saturated.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(of an organic compound) lacking double or triple bonds and having no free valence, as methane, ethane, and propane. <BR> <I>Ex. The members of the Methane Series do not form addition products and are therefore said to be saturated (Parks and Steinbach).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Physics.) charged to the full extent of its capacity. <BR> <I>Ex. Further increase of plate potential does not increase the plate current, which is then said to become saturated (Sears and Zemansky).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(of minerals) containing the greatest proportion of silica possible. </DL>
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<B>saturated fat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> solid or semisolid animal fat, such as butter and lard, that contains mainly saturated fatty acids. A diet high in such fat is believed to raise the cholesterol level in the blood, and is associated with certain heart diseases. <BR> <I>Ex. The degree of saturation depends on the number of hydrogen atoms on the fat molecule. Saturated fats can accommodate no more hydrogens (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>saturater, </B>noun. =saturator.</DL>
<A NAME="saturation">
<B>saturation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of saturating. <BR> <I>Ex. The process of saturation is employed in changing liquid fats into solid fats (Harbaugh and Goodrich).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact of being saturated; saturated condition. The saturation of a color increases as the amount of white in it is decreased. <BR> <I>Ex. The body is first magnetized to saturation ... the field reduced to zero and it remains permanently magnetized (Science News).</I> </DL>
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<B>saturation bombing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a method of bombing in which the heaviest possible tonnage or largest possible number of bombs is concentrated on a target so as to destroy it completely. <BR> <I>Ex. They used a new strategy of saturation bombing, aimed at stopping the Communist rail supply to the front so that it stayed stopped (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>saturation dive,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dive made by saturation diving. </DL>
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<B>saturation diver,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a diver who uses saturation diving. </DL>
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<B>saturation diving,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a method of diving used to shorten the time and frequency of decompression by remaining at a given depth until the body becomes saturated with the synthetic gas mixture used for breathing. <BR> <I>Ex. Saturation diving will allow the divers to stay at depth for as long as desired (Science News).</I> </DL>
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<B>saturation point,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the point at which a substance will combine with or take up in solution no more of another substance. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the condition in which a person can endure no more. <BR> <I>Ex. The meeting was filled almost to the saturation point with upsets (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>saturator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that saturates. <BR> <I>Ex. a saturator for supplying air saturated with water vapor.</I> </DL>
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<B>Saturday, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the seventh day of the week; day after Friday; day of worship among Jews and some Christians. (Abbr:) Sat. </DL>
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<B>Saturday night special,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a kind of inexpensive, widely sold, handgun. <BR> <I>Ex. A Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency voted ... a proposal that would outlaw the public sale of "Saturday night specials," cheap and ubiquitous pistols (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>Saturn, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the ancient Roman god of agriculture and the harvest. The Greeks called him Cronus. Saturn was believed to have ruled during a golden age and to have been deposed by his son Jupiter. <DD><B> 2. </B>the second largest planet in the solar system, and the sixth in distance from the sun. Its orbit lies between those of Jupiter and Uranus and takes 29.46 years to complete, at a mean distance from the sun of 887,500,000 miles. Saturn is encircled by a system of three rings made up of tiny particles of matter. <BR> <I>Ex. Saturn, the only planet easily visible on July evenings, shines toward the south (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the metal lead (in alchemy and old chemistry). </DL>
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<B>Saturnale, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> singular of <B>Saturnalia.</B> </DL>
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<B>Saturnalia, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> the ancient Roman festival of Saturn, celebrated in December with much feasting and merrymaking. </DL>
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<B>saturnalia, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> any period of unrestrained revelry and license. </DL>
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<B>Saturnalian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Roman Saturnalia. </DL>
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<B>saturnalian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> riotously merry; reveling without restraint. </DL>
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<B>Saturnian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the god Saturn or his reign, referred to as "the golden age." <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) prosperous, happy, or peaceful. <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with a form of verse used in early Roman poetry. <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with the planet Saturn. </DL>
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<B>saturniid, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any one of a family of thick-bodied, giant silkworm moths, as the Cecropia moth, the luna moth, and the Polyphemus moth. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to this family of moths. </DL>
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<B>saturnine, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>gloomy; grave; taciturn. <BR> <I>Ex. The saturnine young man returned to France as the dashing hero of a cause celebre (Time).</I> (SYN) cheerless, glum. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Astrology.) born under or affected by the influence of the planet Saturn. <DD><B> 3. </B>suffering from or caused by lead poisoning. <DD><B> 4. </B>of, having to do with, or like lead (in old chemistry). adv. <B>saturninely.</B> </DL>
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<B>saturnism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> chronic lead poisoning. </DL>
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<B>Satyagraha, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a policy of passive resistance and withdrawal of cooperation with the state, begun by Gandhi and his followers in India in 1919 as a protest against certain abuses. <BR> <I>Ex. ... as Gandhi conceived it--not only as a technique but as a soul force, Satyagraha (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>Satyagrahi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one who favors the policy of Satyagraha. </DL>
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<B>satyr, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an ancient Greek deity of the woods, who was part man and part goat or horse. The satyrs were merry, riotous followers of Bacchus, the god of wine. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr (Arthur Wing Pinero).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a man having satyriasis. <DD><B> 4. </B>any one of a family of brown or grayish butterflies that have eyespots on the wings. </DL>
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<B>satyriasis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in a man. </DL>
<A NAME="satyric">
<B>satyric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a satyr or satyrs. </DL>
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<B>satyrical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a satyr; satyric. <BR> <I>Ex. Boasting the most improbable plot since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith ... (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>satyr play,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ribald drama of ancient Greece, with a chorus of satyrs or satyr-like characters, written to be performed following a trilogy of tragedies at the springtime Dionysian Festival. <BR> <I>Ex. The Athenians ... would sit through three tragedies and a satyr play in one morning (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>satyr tragopan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tragopan of the Himalayas with brilliant orange and scarlet feathers, a black head, and white spots. </DL>
<A NAME="sau">
<B>sau, </B>noun, pl. <B>sau.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a coin of Vietnam equal to 1/100 of a dong. </DL>
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<B>sauce, </B>noun, verb, <B>sauced,</B> <B>saucing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something, usually a liquid, served with a food to make it taste better. We eat cranberry sauce with turkey, mint sauce with lamb, egg sauce with fish, and many different sauces with puddings. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) stewed fruit or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. rhubarb sauce.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) something that adds interest or relish. <BR> <I>Ex. Fame is only one of the sauces of life (A. C. Benson).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) sauciness; impertinence. <BR> <I>Ex. I don't like your sauce. Jaunty girls gave sailors sauce (Atlantic).</I> (SYN) pertness, flippancy. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) garden sass. <DD><B> 6. </B>(U.S. Slang.) alcoholic liquor. <BR> <I>Ex. Vowing that he was off the sauce for life, Sammy insisted that he had not been an alcoholic (Time).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to prepare with sauce; season. <BR> <I>Ex. to sauce meat with pepper. Now the shish kebab, sauced in Burgundy ... (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to give interest or flavor to. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) to be saucy to. <DD><B> 4. </B>to reduce the harshness of. <BR> <I>Ex. to sauce criticism with flattery.</I> </DL>
<B>sauceboat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dish for serving sauce, usually with a lip. </DL>
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<B>saucebox, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a saucy person, especially a girl or young child. </DL>
<A NAME="saucediable">
<B>sauce diable,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a meat or fish sauce thickened with browned flour and butter and flavored with wine, vinegar, and various spices and herbs. </DL>
<A NAME="saucepan">
<B>saucepan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a metal dish with a handle and usually a lid, used for boiling, stewing, and other like things. <BR> <I>Ex. Hotplates have special "glide-over" tops that remove the danger of tipping saucepans (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a small skillet with a long handle formerly used for boiling sauces and other small things. </DL>
