How do you use Aerate in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like process or oxygenate, plus the exact meaning.
Aerate meaning
- To supply with oxygen or air.
- To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air.
- To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material.
Synonyms of Aerate
Using Aerate
- The main meaning on this page is: To supply with oxygen or air. | To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air. | To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material.
- Useful related words include: air out, process, oxygenise, oxygenize.
- In the example corpus, aerate often appears in combinations such as: aerate the, and aerate.
Context around Aerate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Aerate
- In this selection, "aerate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, help stand out and add context to how "aerate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and then aerate the mixture and baking and aerate the cookie. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "aerate" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with aerate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In wet habitats, larger species construct mud towers above ground in order to aerate their burrows. (16 words)
As they move through the soil, they mix and aerate the soil and incorporate minerals into the topsoil. (18 words)
First one places a solid waste sample in a container with microorganisms and soil, and then aerate the mixture. (19 words)
Their sharp claws, long snouts, and tongues help aerate the soil, and more so, each pangolin can eat millions of insects each year. (23 words)
The main function of this plough is to loosen and aerate the soils while leaving crop residue at the top of the soil. (23 words)
First one places a solid waste sample in a container with microorganisms and soil, and then aerate the mixture. (19 words)
Example sentences (7)
As they move through the soil, they mix and aerate the soil and incorporate minerals into the topsoil.
Their sharp claws, long snouts, and tongues help aerate the soil, and more so, each pangolin can eat millions of insects each year.
First one places a solid waste sample in a container with microorganisms and soil, and then aerate the mixture.
In wet habitats, larger species construct mud towers above ground in order to aerate their burrows.
The main function of this plough is to loosen and aerate the soils while leaving crop residue at the top of the soil.
The tiny bubbles locked within the butter expand in the heat of baking and aerate the cookie or cake.
They aerate and stir the soil and increase the stability of soil aggregates, thereby assuring ready infiltration of water.
Common combinations with aerate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: