Dictionary Definition
Verb
1 direct energy or urges into useful
activities
3 remove impurities from, increase the
concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation;
"purify the water" [syn: purify, make pure,
distill]
4 change or cause to change directly from a solid
into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts
sublime when heated" [syn: sublime]
5 vaporize and then condense right back again
[syn: sublime]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/
Verb
- To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state (transitive or intransitive)
- To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
- , (psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.
- To raise to a place of honor.
Related terms
Translations
to change from solid to gas
- Bosnian: sublimirati
- Croatian: sublimirati
- Finnish: sublimoitua
- French: sublimer
- German: sublimieren
- Japanese: 昇華させる (shōka saseru)
- Portuguese: sublimar
- Spanish: sublimar
- Swedish: sublimera
purify or refine
- Bosnian: sublimirati
- Croatian: sublimirati
- French: sublimer
- Portuguese: sublimar
- Spanish: sublimar
psychoanalysis
- Bosnian: sublimirati
- Croatian: sublimirati
- Finnish: sublimoitua
- French: sublimer
- German: sublimieren
- Japanese: 昇華させる (shōka saseru)
- Portuguese: sublimar
- Spanish: sublimar
- Swedish: sublimera
to raise to a place of honor
- Bosnian: sublimirati
- Croatian: sublimirati
- French: honorer
- Portuguese: sublimar
Italian
Verb
sublimate- Form of Second-person plural present tense, sublimare
- Form of Second-person plural imperative, sublimare#Italian|sublimare
Extensive Definition
Sublimation can have several meanings:
- Sublimation (chemistry), the change from solid to gas, while at no point becoming a liquid.
- Sublimation (psychology), the transformation of emotions.
- Dye sublimation, the transference of printed images to a synthetic substrate by the application of heat.
- Sublation, the purification or exaltation of a thing by its negation or redirection.
- in Iain M. Banks' science fiction novels, the process of a civilization becoming one of the Sublimed.
sublimate in German: Sublimierung
sublimate in Spanish: Sublimación
(desambiguación)
sublimate in French: Sublimation
sublimate in Galician: Sublimación
sublimate in Latvian: Sublimācija
sublimate in Dutch: Sublimeren
sublimate in Japanese: 昇華
sublimate in Polish: Sublimacja
sublimate in Russian: Сублимация
sublimate in Slovak: Sublimácia
sublimate in Ukrainian: Сублімація
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aerate,
aerify, alluvion, alluvium, alter, ash, atomize, bolt, carbonate, channel, chlorinate, cinder, clarify, clear, clinker, decrassify, deposition, deposits, depurate, diluvium, distill, divert, draff, dregs, dross, edulcorate, elute, ember, emit, essentialize, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, extract, feces, filter, filtrate, fluidize, fractionate, froth, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, grounds, hydrogenate, inhibit, keep under, leach, lees, lixiviate, loess, moraine, offscum, oxygenate, percolate, perfume, precipitate, precipitation, purify, rectify, reek, refine, repress, scoria, screen, scum, sediment, send out, separate, settlings, sieve, sift, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smother, smut, soot, spiritualize, spray, steam, stifle, strain, sublime, suppress, transform, transmute, try, vaporize, volatilize, winnow