hydrate

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See also: Hydrate and hydraté

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hydrate, coined by Joseph-Louis Proust, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hīʹdrāt, IPA(key): /haɪˈdɹeɪt/, /ˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
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Noun

hydrate (plural hydrates)

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  1. (chemistry) A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
  2. (inorganic chemistry, rare) Water.

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Verb

hydrate (third-person singular simple present hydrates, present participle hydrating, simple past and past participle hydrated)

  1. (transitive) To take up, consume or become linked to water.
    A lotion can hydrate the skin.
  2. (slang) To drink water.
  3. (programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables

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French

Etymology

From hydr- +‎ -ate.

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Noun

hydrate m (plural hydrates)

  1. (chemistry) hydrate

Verb

hydrate

  1. inflection of hydrater:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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