hydrate

See also: Hydrate and hydraté

English

Etymology

From French hydrate, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīʹdrāt
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹeɪt/, /ˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /hɑɪˈdɹæɪt/, /ˈhɑɪdɹæɪt/

    • Audio (Queensland):

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Noun

hydrate (plural hydrates)

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Wikipedia

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

Derived terms

• carbohydrate
• chloralhydrate
• chloral hydrate
• chlorohydrate
• cryohydrate
• decahydrate
• dihydrate
• docosahydrate
• dodecahydrate
• duodecahydrate
• ethyl hydrate
• gas hydrate
• hemihydrate
• heptahydrate
• hexadecahydrate
• hexahydrate
• hydratable
• hydratase
• hydrator
• hyperhydrate
• methane hydrate
• methyl hydrate
• monohydrate
• nonahydrate
• octadecahydrate
• octahydrate
• overhydrate
• oxyhydrate
• pentadecahydrate
• pentahydrate
• perhydrate
• prehydrate
• quadrihydrate
• semihydrate
• sesquihydrate
• tetracosahydrate
• tetrahydrate
• tricosahydrate
• tridecahydrate
• trihydrate
• undecahydrate
• underhydrate

Translations

solid compound containing or linked to water molecules

Albanian: hidrat (sq) m Arabic: هَايْدْرَات m (haydrāt) Armenian: հիդրատ (hidrat) Azerbaijani: hidrat Bulgarian: хидра́т (bg) m (hidrát) Catalan: hidrat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 水合物 (zh) (shuǐhéwù) Czech: hydrát (cs) m Danish: hydrat (da) n Dutch: hydraat (nl) n Esperanto: hidrato (eo) Estonian: hüdraat Finnish: hydraatti (fi) French: hydrate (fr) m Georgian: ჰიდრატი (hidraṭi) German: Hydrat n Greek: ένυδρο άλας (énydro álas), υδρίτης m (ydrítis) Hindi: जलीय (jalīya) Hungarian: hidrát (hu) Icelandic: hýdrat n Ido: hidrato (io) Irish: hiodráit f Italian: idrato (it) m Japanese: 水和物 (すいわぶつ, suiwabutsu) Kazakh: гидрат (gidrat) Khmer: អ៊ីដ្រាត (ʼiidraat) Korean: 수화물(水化物) (ko) (suhwamul), 함수화합물(含水化合物) (hamsuhwahammul) Kyrgyz: гидрат (gidrat) Lithuanian: hidrãtas m Norwegian: Bokmål: hydrat n Nynorsk: hydrat n Persian: هیدرات (fa) Polish: hydrat m, wodzian m Portuguese: hidrato (pt) m Romanian: hidrat (ro) m Russian: гидра́т (ru) m (gidrát) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хѝдра̄т m Roman: hìdrāt m Slovene: hidrát (sl) m Spanish: hidrato (es) m Swedish: hydrat (sv) n Tajik: гидрат (gidrat) Thai: ไฮเดรต (haidret) Turkish: hidrat (tr) Ukrainian: гідра́т m (hidrát) Vietnamese: hydrat

See also

• hydrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• water of crystallization

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

Synonyms

• (to add water to): bewater

Coordinate terms

• caffeinate

Derived terms

• dehydrate
• hydrate or diedrate
• hydration
• rehydrate

Translations

to absorb water

Armenian: հիդրատացնել (hidratacʻnel) Bulgarian: хидратирам (hidratiram) Catalan: hidratar (ca) Czech: hydratovat Danish: hydrere (da) Dutch: hydrateren (nl) French: hydrater (fr) Greek: ενυδατώνω (el) (enydatóno) Irish: hiodráitigh Italian: idratare (it) Korean: 수화(水化)시키다 (suhwasikida) Polish: nawodnić pf, nawadniać (pl) impf, uwodnić pf (chemistry), uwadniać impf (chemistry) Portuguese: hidratar (pt) Russian: гидрати́ровать (ru) (gidratírovatʹ) Spanish: hidratar (es)

Anagrams

• thready

French

Etymology

From hydr- +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.dʁat/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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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

Further reading

• “hydrate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.