What's the difference between satisfy and saturate?

Satisfy


Definition:

  • (a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
  • (a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
  • (a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.
  • (a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.
  • (v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
  • (v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (2) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
  • (3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (4) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
  • (5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (6) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
  • (7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
  • (8) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
  • (9) Twenty-two of them could be shown to satisfy the Poisson law.
  • (10) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (11) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
  • (12) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (13) Whereas on the Self-Cathexis Scale, 45% (N = 9) were satisfied and 55% (N = 11) were dissatisfied with self.
  • (14) Response latency has been shown to satisfy the first two of these conditions.
  • (15) He was also satisfied he had joined in racist chanting.
  • (16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
  • (17) Thus, despite the apparently higher level of pyruvate production in the NPC, exogenous pyruvate is necessary to satisfy the metabolic needs of NPC.
  • (18) Pain relief was very good, and the patients were generally satisfied.
  • (19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
  • (20) The most important basis for evaluating an assistive device is whether it satisfies the needs of the disabled consumer.

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.