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SUBLIMATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The product of vaporization of a solidplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sublimate" is a kind of...):

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sublimate"):

bichloride of mercury; corrosive sublimate; mercuric chloride; mercury chloride (a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative)

Derivation:

sublimate (vaporize and then condense right back again)

sublimate (change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting)

sublimate (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)

sublime (vaporize and then condense right back again)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made pureplay

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)

 III. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they sublimate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it sublimates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: sublimated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: sublimated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: sublimating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vaporize and then condense right back againplay

Synonyms:

sublimate; sublime

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

"Sublimate" entails doing...:

condense (cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid)

evaporate; vaporise; vaporize (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sublimate"):

resublime (sublime (a compound) once again)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

sublimate (the product of vaporization of a solid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first meltingplay

Example:

some salts sublime when heated

Synonyms:

sublimate; sublime

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):

aerify; gasify; vaporise; vaporize (turn into gas)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Derivation:

sublimate (the product of vaporization of a solid)

sublimation ((chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillationplay

Example:

purify the water

Synonyms:

distill; make pure; purify; sublimate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Verb group:

distil; distill (undergo the process of distillation)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sublimate"):

rectify; refine (reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities)

purge (rid of impurities)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

sublimate (the product of vaporization of a solid)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make more subtle or refinedplay

Synonyms:

rarefy; sublimate; subtilize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Direct energy or urges into useful activitiesplay

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):

airt; redirect (channel into a new direction)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sublimate"):

desexualise; desexualize (direct one's libidinous urges into another direction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sublimation ((psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable)

Credits

 Context examples: 

No, she was a spirit, a divinity, a goddess; such sublimated beauty was not of the earth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Down below where he lived was the ignoble, and he wanted to purge himself of the ignoble that had soiled all his days, and to rise to that sublimated realm where dwelt the upper classes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)




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