Meaning of "sublimate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUBLIMATE

From Latin sublīmāre to elevate, from sublīmis lofty.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SUBLIMATE

sublimate  [ˈsʌblɪˌmeɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBLIMATE

Sublimate is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sublimate in English.

WHAT DOES SUBLIMATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sublimation

Sublimation may refer to: ▪ Sublimation, the change from solid to gas without passing through the liquid phase ▪ Sublimation, the transformation of emotions ▪ Sublimation, a music album by Canvas Solaris ▪ Volcanic sublimate, a product of deposition from vapors around volcanic vents...

Definition of sublimate in the English dictionary

The first definition of sublimate in the dictionary is to direct the energy of into activities that are considered to be socially more acceptable. Other definition of sublimate is to make purer; refine. Sublimate is also the material obtained when a substance is sublimed.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SUBLIMATE

PRESENT

Present

I sublimate

you sublimate

he/she/it sublimates

we sublimate

you sublimate

they sublimate

Present continuous

I am sublimating

you are sublimating

he/she/it is sublimating

we are sublimating

you are sublimating

they are sublimating

Present perfect

I have sublimated

you have sublimated

he/she/it has sublimated

we have sublimated

you have sublimated

they have sublimated

Present perfect continuous

I have been sublimating

you have been sublimating

he/she/it has been sublimating

we have been sublimating

you have been sublimating

they have been sublimating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sublimated

you sublimated

he/she/it sublimated

we sublimated

you sublimated

they sublimated

Past continuous

I was sublimating

you were sublimating

he/she/it was sublimating

we were sublimating

you were sublimating

they were sublimating

Past perfect

I had sublimated

you had sublimated

he/she/it had sublimated

we had sublimated

you had sublimated

they had sublimated

Past perfect continuous

I had been sublimating

you had been sublimating

he/she/it had been sublimating

we had been sublimating

you had been sublimating

they had been sublimating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will sublimate

you will sublimate

he/she/it will sublimate

we will sublimate

you will sublimate

they will sublimate

Future continuous

I will be sublimating

you will be sublimating

he/she/it will be sublimating

we will be sublimating

you will be sublimating

they will be sublimating

Future perfect

I will have sublimated

you will have sublimated

he/she/it will have sublimated

we will have sublimated

you will have sublimated

they will have sublimated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sublimating

you will have been sublimating

he/she/it will have been sublimating

we will have been sublimating

you will have been sublimating

they will have been sublimating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sublimate

you would sublimate

he/she/it would sublimate

we would sublimate

you would sublimate

they would sublimate

Conditional continuous

I would be sublimating

you would be sublimating

he/she/it would be sublimating

we would be sublimating

you would be sublimating

they would be sublimating

Conditional perfect

I would have sublimate

you would have sublimate

he/she/it would have sublimate

we would have sublimate

you would have sublimate

they would have sublimate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sublimating

you would have been sublimating

he/she/it would have been sublimating

we would have been sublimating

you would have been sublimating

they would have been sublimating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sublimate
we let´s sublimate
you sublimate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sublimate

Past participle

sublimated

Present Participle

sublimating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SUBLIMATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sublimate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sublimate

channel · convert · divert · redirect · transfer · turn

TRANSLATION OF SUBLIMATE

Find out the translation of sublimate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sublimate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sublimate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 升华
• Translator English - Spanish: sublimar
• English: sublimate
• Translator English - Hindi: उदात्तीकरण
• Translator English - Arabic: تسامى
• Translator English - Russian: сублимировать
• Translator English - Portuguese: sublimar
• Translator English - Bengali: উচ্চতর খাতে প্রবাহিত করান
• Translator English - French: sublimer
• Translator English - Malay: Sublimat
• Translator English - German: sublimieren
• Translator English - Japanese: 昇華させる
• Translator English - Korean: 승화
• Translator English - Javanese: Sublimate
• Translator English - Vietnamese: làm ăn da
• Translator English - Tamil: காய்ச்சுவதற்குப்
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रख्यात
• Translator English - Turkish: yüceltmek
• Translator English - Italian: sublimare
• Translator English - Polish: sublimacji
• Translator English - Ukrainian: сублімувати
• Translator English - Romanian: sublimat
• Translator English - Greek: μετουσιώσουν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: sublimeer
• Translator English - Swedish: sublimera
• Translator English - Norwegian: sublimere

6 QUOTES WITH «SUBLIMATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sublimate.

1

Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

2

Roxane Gay

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

3

Jonah Goldberg

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

4

Joanne Harris

I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.

5

Thierry Mugler

I have always tried to sublimate the body and to make people dream.

6

Peter Steele

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBLIMATE»

Discover the use of sublimate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sublimate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

A Source Book in Chemistry, 1400-1900

From among the saline substances I will first choose one whose excess of acid is perfectly well known and which moreover, first gave me light on this discovery; I wish to speak of corrosive sublimate of mercury. Corrosive mercury sublimate is ...

Henry Marshall Leicester, Herbert S. Klickstein, 1952

Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...

though ihf pure sublimate, and the mixtures of it with arsenic, exhibited some differences in these trials, yet tliefij differences were neither so constant nor so strongly marked, as to be laid down universally for criteria of the presence or absence ...

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, 1797

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: ...

The method of refining gold, by means of sublimate, is this: they begin the process like that with antimony ; that is, in the fame furnace, with the fame coal, the fame fire, and the fame crucibles. When the gold is melted in the crucible, they cast in ...

‎1764

The Chemist

There was vomiting at very short intervals ; large quantities of mucus thrown up, and liquids that had apparently been given her. If a person had taken corrosive sublimate of mercury, I should conceive such symptoms would have been ...

‎1824

A manual of materia medica and pharmacy, from the Fr. of ...

Th. E. In the dose of a few grains, corrosive sublimate is one of the most active poisons. Administered in very small doses, it induces the general phenomena caused by the other preparations of mercury. It is very often used in the treatment of ...

Henri Milne-Edwards, John Davies (M.R.C.S.), Pierre Henri L.D. Vavasseur, 1831

Sex, Breath, and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-feminist Era

According to Sigmund Freud's theory, the ability to sublimate drives, and their manifestation in affects, into representation and artistic practices is the source of human civilization and creativity. Without the ability to sublimate bodily drives and  ...

Ellen Mortensen, 2006

A Universal formulary

Ella. Lotion of Corrosive Sublimate. R. Corrosive sublimate, three to six grains. Distilled water, sufficient. Dissolve, and add Extract of hemlock, " chamomile, each, two drachms. Tincture of opium, one fl. drachm. Honey of roses, one ounce. Mix.

Robert Eglesfeld Griffith, 1866

The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...

perfectly washed, were mixed and allowed to react for twenty-four hours, the temperature varying from 68° to 77° Fahr.; there was produced 0'6 of a part of corrosive sublimate. Similar experiments were made with calomel prepared by ...

David Brewster, Richard Phillips, Richard Taylor, 1842

The Works ... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author. A ...

AND, Pyrapbilus, to discover, how much these operations of the sublimate upon copper and silver depend upon the particular textures of these bodies, I took two parcels of gold, the one common gold thinly laminated, and the other very well ...

Robert I Boyle, 1772

The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...

These two experiments, repeated with precipitated calomel, gave the following results :— lst Ezperiment.—-Sublimate 1'8 part. 2nd Experiment.—Sublimate 0'6 part. Experiments were then made to decide the question, whether the degree of  ...

‎1842

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBLIMATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sublimate is used in the context of the following news items.

Sublimate Like a Fashion Designer

Let your inner fashion designer come out. With sublimation, the design possibilities are practically endless. The Epson SureColor F-Series dye-sublimation ... «Advertising Specialty Institute, Jul 15»

Exposed water ice detected on comet's surface

As they move closer to the Sun along their orbits, their surfaces are warmed and the ices sublimate into gas, which streams away from the nucleus, dragging ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»

Ceres bright spots sharpen but questions remain

In most cases the ice gradually sublimates away or covered by dust over time. But if Ceres' white spots are ice, then we can reasonably assume they must be ... «Phys.Org, May 15»

Image: Comet activity 31 January – 25 March 2015

As the comet's surface layers are gently warmed, frozen ices sublimate. The escaping gas carries streams of dust out into space, and together these slowly ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»

When Will We See Bare Ground And Have We Really Had 100 …

The process, called sublimation, occurs when any solid object goes directly into a gas. Things like mothballs and dry ice can also sublimate over time. The ice ... «Boston.com, Feb 15»

Sublimating the Binge Eating, Self-Restricting Roller Coaster

This compensatory tendency of binge-eaters will come in handy when we try to sublimate this eating roller-coaster. You'll just have to read on to get a better ... «PsychCentral.com, Jan 15»

Sullivan | UK wins without whining

What makes this Kentucky team special, though, and a 6-5 favorite to win the NCAA Championship, is its willingness to sublimate individual egos in the interests ... «The Courier-Journal, Dec 14»

It's Just a Phase: Changes on Pluto's Surface

Pluto's ices sublimate directly to gas in the same way. Sunshine is weak on Pluto, about a factor of a thousand weaker than on Earth, but it still provides enough ... «Space Daily, Oct 14»

WATCH: John Oliver Celebrates Drag Diva's Eurovision Win

“Basically, 37 European countries sublimate thousands of years of ethnic and religious tensions into a series of bizarre three-minute song-tastrophes," Oliver ... «Advocate.com, May 14»

Portland's Top Five Other Best Monthly Dance Nights

Like many local crews, Sublimate is the total package: a label, promotion company, and DJ and artist collective. Bass is the name of their game, with regulars No ... «Willamette Week, May 14»