Solute

/ˈsɒljuːt/ · adjective

Meaning

Free; liberal; loose..

Definitions by Sense

1. Free; liberal; loose.
2. Relaxed; hence, cheerful, merry.
3. Able to be dissolved; soluble.
4. (botany) Not adhering; loose.
5. Any substance that is dissolved in a liquid solvent to create a solution.
6. (obsolete) To dissolve.
7. (obsolete) To solve; to expose the errors of; to explain
8. (obsolete) Alternative form of salute.

Example Sentences

a solute interpretation

The Interpretations of the Scriptures are of two ſorts: Methodical, and Solute, or at large, […]

So ſung Philander, as his Friend went round / In the rich Ichor, in the gen'rous Blood / Of Bacchus, purple God of joyous Wit, / A Brow ſolute, and ever-laughing Eye.

a solute salt

a solute stipule

Holonym: solution

In summer, the action of the air as a menstruum, is rendered so powerful by the increase of heat, that water is immediately and intimately combined with it: for when the particles of water are influenced by heat, and acted upon by a dry, warm air, they easilty rise therein, and become soluted in the atmosphere.

In the present day they hold out that the metallic calces are soluted in acids, accordingly as they possess oxygen.

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Word Forms

• more solute
• most solute
• solutes
• soluting
• soluted

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