SUBLIMATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does sublimate mean?
• SUBLIMATE (noun)
The noun SUBLIMATE has 1 sense:
1. the product of vaporization of a solid
Familiarity information: SUBLIMATE used as a noun is very rare.
• SUBLIMATE (adjective)
The adjective SUBLIMATE has 1 sense:
1. made pure
Familiarity information: SUBLIMATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• SUBLIMATE (verb)
The verb SUBLIMATE has 5 senses:
1. direct energy or urges into useful activities
2. make more subtle or refined
3. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
4. change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
5. vaporize and then condense right back again
Familiarity information: SUBLIMATE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• SUBLIMATE (noun)
Meaning:
The product of vaporization of a solid
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)
• SUBLIMATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Made pure
Synonyms:
purified; sublimate; refined
Similar:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
• SUBLIMATE (verb)
Meaning:
Direct energy or urges into useful activities
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
Meaning:
Make more subtle or refined
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
rarefy; sublimate; subtilize
Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
distill; make pure; purify; sublimate
Context example:
purify the water
Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
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
Meaning:
Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
sublime; sublimate
Context examples:
sublime iodine / some salts sublime when heated
Hypernyms (to "sublimate" is one way to...):
aerify; gasify; vaporise; vaporize (turn into gas)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Vaporize and then condense right back again
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
sublime; sublimate
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
