hydrate

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

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

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hydrate (plural hydrates)

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

• hydrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• water of crystallization

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

• (to add water to): bewater

• caffeinate

• dehydrate
• hydrate or diedrate
• hydration
• rehydrate

• thready

From hydr- +‎ -ate.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.dʁat/

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hydrate m (plural hydrates)

1. (chemistry) hydrate

hydrate

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

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