PERVAPORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pervaporate mean? 

• PERVAPORATE (verb)
  The verb PERVAPORATE has 2 senses:

1. evaporate through a semipermeable membrane

2. cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane

  Familiarity information: PERVAPORATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERVAPORATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pervaporate    ... he / she / it pervaporates   
Past simple: pervaporated   
Past participle: pervaporated   
-ing form: pervaporating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evaporate through a semipermeable membrane

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pervaporate" is one way to...):

evaporate; vaporise (change into a vapor)

Verb group:

pervaporate (cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

pervaporation (the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pervaporate" is one way to...):

evaporate; vaporise (cause to change into a vapor)

Verb group:

pervaporate (evaporate through a semipermeable membrane)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

pervaporation (the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off)