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diffusely

/verb dih-fyooz; adjective dih-fyoos/US // verb dɪˈfyuz; adjective dɪˈfyus //

弥漫地,弥漫性地,漫无边际地,弥散地

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dif·fused, dif·fusing.

    • : to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
    • : to spread or scatter widely or thinly; disseminate.
    • : Physics. to spread by diffusion.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dif·fused, dif·fusing.

    • : to spread.
    • : Physics. to intermingle by diffusion.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by great length or discursiveness in speech or writing; wordy.
    • : widely spread or scattered; dispersed.
    • : Botany. widely or loosely spreading.
    • : Optics. scattered, as from a rough surface.

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Examples

  • The move, among the first philanthropic efforts at a company that historically made few charitable commitments, did little to diffuse an increasingly heated debate about Amazon’s role in Seattle’s civic life.

  • That would be similar to how humans smell compounds that diffuse through air.

  • Most of the material that makes up this "cosmic web" is dark matter, along with diffuse and distant gas.

  • The “very sinews of government are made strong by a diffused knowledge of this science,” he wrote.

  • The deeper we hiked into the woods, the more diffuse the crowds got.

  • Is memory made apt and extensive or narrow and diffusely irrelevant?

  • In Section 106 we learned that most objects are visible to us because of the light diffusely reflected from them.

  • He seemed a trifle sulky, but he did not talk about himself diffusely, and lose his head when he was smoothed the right way.

  • "Let me have the pleasure of telling it you my way," cried she, and told it diffusely, and kept him writhing.

  • Are the sensitive cells diffusely distributed in the organ or do they form a definite layer?