Skip to main content

dilute

/dih-loot, dahy-; adjective also dahy-loot/US // dɪˈlut, daɪ-; adjective also ˈdaɪ lut //UK // (daɪˈluːt) //

冲淡,淡化,稀释,冲淡了

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing.

    • : to make thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
    • : to make fainter, as a color.
    • : to reduce the strength, force, or efficiency of by admixture.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing.

    • : to become diluted.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : reduced in strength, as a chemical by admixture; weak: a dilute solution.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake thinner; weaken
Forms: diluted

Examples

  • Specifically, the commentary discusses the theory of variolation, an pre-vaccine form of inoculation that uses a dilute form of the smallpox virus to give people a mild infection that would lead to lifelong immunity to the virus.

  • Tesla also announced it had sold $5 billion of new shares, diluting the value of stock held by existing investors.

  • Unfortunately, Lo says, in many schools, these systems don’t mix the air well enough to dilute any virus.

  • Mixing dilutes the indoor air, spreading out any virus it may hold.

  • Tesla shares are now officially in correction territory, in a week that saw the electric-vehicle maker announce a share sale that could dilute its value and a top holder cut its stake nearly in half.

  • You would have to be drinking LITERS of water to dilute your stomach acid in any meaningful way.

  • The other obvious way to help your body deal with excessive toxins from that large meal is to dilute the toxins by drinking more.

  • To dilute the bitterness, the less-than-brave steep them in green tea.

  • The minute you undermine the insurance, or dilute it, a bank run might ensue.

  • I also refuse to dilute the power of the accusation through inaccurate overuse.

  • The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.

  • The remainder of the residue may be dissolved in a little dilute sulphuric acid.

  • It dissolves in dilute potash, and on the addition of acetic acid is deposited in a pure state.

  • The ether solution was washed with water and dilute sodium carbonate solution, and the ether was evaporated.

  • When the small residue was completely dry, it was a yellow solid soluble in dilute alcohol and acid to litmus.