dilute

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.

   • Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
2. 2

   To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.

   • For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.
   • “Stay a little.” “Not another second: language and discussion dilute thought; I will say no more.”
   • It's healthy to have people in the military who would perhaps rather be somewhere else; they can dilute the more gung-ho military types.
3. 3

   To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by…

   To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.

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   1. 4

      To become attenuated, thin, or weak.

      • It dilutes easily.
   2. 5

      Having a low concentration.

      • Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.
   3. 6

      Weak

      Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.

   4. 7

      Of an animal

      Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.

      • a dilute calico
      • a cat with a dilute tortoiseshell coat
   5. 8

      An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.

      • On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.

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