What's the difference between imbue and saturate?

Imbue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
  • (v. t.) To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
  • (3) Second, the thymus imbues T cells with the property of H-2-restricted recognition of antigen, that is, the capacity of T cells to react with foreign antigens presented in association with self H-2 gene products.
  • (4) Therefore, roentgenographic evidence of bone destruction or skeletal stigmata of hyperparathyroidism imbues laboratory data with greater significance.
  • (5) They share language, values and attitudes, all imbued during a common childhood and youth.
  • (6) But Fulham were unshackled, imbued with enhanced belief and, when Dejagah crossed low from the right, Richardson, an integral part of West Bromwich Albion's great escape round these parts in 2005, dispatched a fierce, left-footed shot into the far top corner from the edge of the penalty area.
  • (7) And whatever else happens, get some teachers and school leaders on this committee – people from the chalkface imbued with common sense and the experience to make the right decisions.
  • (8) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
  • (9) Physiognomic perception, a cognitive style dimension through which people imbue objects with varying degrees of affect, was measured by a standardized and validated instrument known as the Stein Physiognomic Cue Test.
  • (10) A clean and thorough audit was integral to the imbuing the new administration with full legitimacy, he added.
  • (11) It would be imbued with nostalgia for the prelapsarian America, and it would capture the sense of community that Walt Disney spent his whole life trying to distil, bottle and sell.
  • (12) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
  • (13) The struggle against the enemy is imbued in people from the earliest age.
  • (14) Some people – often due to earlier, familial experiences of loving an unavailable person such as an absent or depressed mother – tend to find themselves in adult relationships where they continue to remain imbued with longing.
  • (15) Biology engineers structures on the molecular scale but biomolecules do not seem to be imbued with useful electronic properties.
  • (16) The days when many members of mainstream parties, particularly on the left, refused to share a platform with extremists to avoid imbuing them with political legitimacy appear to be over.
  • (17) In fact, I would be Hayley, had a troop of philanthropic Guardianistas not adopted me from a Yates's Wine Lodge car park in the late-90s, weaned me on a diet of polenta chips, broad bean-based mezze and exemplary goose eggs, and then imbued me with a love of special "Tandem Riding In Andalucia" travel supplements and freeing Burma or boycotting Burma, or whatever we're doing with Burma this week (I'm never sure).
  • (18) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
  • (19) Significantly, perhaps, having witnessed the failure of two bright new dawns - those of postwar communism and post-cold war capitalism - the Leipzig painters are seen as having an atmosphere of disillusionment in common; their work is imbued with a deep melancholy.
  • (20) Recalling the year's challenges – sporting, logistical and meteorological — she spoke of the sense of achievement and demonstration of public-spiritedness that had imbued the nation during 2012.

Saturate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (p. a.) Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
  • (3) The Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was half-maximally activated by [Ca2+]o = 2.0 mM in LiSW and 7.2 mM in Tris-SW; at saturating [Ca2+]o, [Ca2+]i, and [Na+]i the maximal (calculated) Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was approximately 75 pmol#cm2.s.
  • (4) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (5) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (6) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
  • (7) Saturated acyl residues predominated in lysolecithin and unsaturated ones in acids released by hydrolysis of egg lecithin.
  • (8) Furthermore, in induced Friend cells 100 microM Fe-SIH stimulated 2-14C-glycine incorporation into heme up to 3.6-fold as compared to the incorporation observed with saturating concentrations of Fe-Tf.
  • (9) The present results using approximately 12% hemoglobin concentration in 0.1 M Bistris buffer at pD 7 and 27 degrees C with and without organic phosphate show that there is no significant line broadening on oxygenation (from 0 to 50% saturation) to affect the determination of the intensities or areas of these resonances.
  • (10) In air-saturated solutions of DNA, yields of 8-hydroxypurines were not influenced greatly by DNA conformation.
  • (11) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
  • (12) Partially purified fatty acid synthetase produced saturated and unsaturated fatty acids with chain lengths of C10 to C18.
  • (13) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
  • (14) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
  • (15) The first step is the preparation of a globulin-enriched fraction by precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 50% saturation, or of an immune-complex-enriched fraction by precipitation with 5% polyethylene glycol 6000.
  • (16) GTP and its analogues decrease the requirement of the reaction for Ca2+ and also increase its activity at saturating Ca2+.
  • (17) At saturating levels of AMP (greater than or equal 2.0 mM) maximum activation is observed with 25 mM KCl, whereas at lower substrate concentrations (0.2 mM) approximately 50 mM KCl is needed for maximum activation.
  • (18) The kinetic pattern of changes in hemoglobin saturation, cyt.
  • (19) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
  • (20) Safety was assessed by clinical follow-up, continuous recording of arterial oxygen saturation during the procedure with a digital oximeter, and measuring FEV1, FEF25-75, and FVC just before and 5 min after bronchoscopy.