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Saturate vs Clog - What's the difference?

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Saturate is a related term of clog.


As verbs the difference between saturate and clog

is that saturate is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid) while clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

As a noun clog is

a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

saturate

English

Verb

(saturat)
  • To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
  • * 1815 , in the Annals of Philosophy , volume 6, page 332:
    • Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas,
  • * Macaulay
    • 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 .
  • To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
    • One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

    Related terms

    * sate * satis * satisfy

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    clog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

    Derived terms

    * clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.