I. verb
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fully
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The specialty-chemicals company plans to take a fourth-quarter restructuring charge of 28 cents to 30 cents a fully diluted share.
further
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If this also causes aggravation, the remedy can be further diluted in a third cup, and so on.
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That water flows into the Sacramento River, where it is further diluted by water from Shasta Dam.
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What was 3C is now further diluted 1:50,000.
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The effect of this will be to dilute further the value of the company's existing shares.
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For each study the aliquot was further diluted in 0.9% NaCl solution.
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This solution is then diluted further for use.
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The right is further diluted because licences are available as of right during the last five years.
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water
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They can detect this flavour even when their home water is diluted to one part in several million.
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This would lead to diminished delivery of salt and water to the diluting sites.
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Low river flow worsens pollution, since there is less water to dilute sewage and other outflows.
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First, delivery of solute and water to the diluting sites is essential.
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Sodium nitrite is dissolved in distilled water and diluted to volume.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Add some red wine to dilute the tomato sauce.
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Concentrated bleach can be diluted with water.
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Continue diluting the tomato sauce with red wine, according to taste.
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For babies, dilute the fruit juice with at least the same amount of water.
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Opening NATO to new members may dilute its strength.
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Pour a little of the antiseptic into a bowl and dilute it before bathing the cut.
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Right wing groups are determined to dilute the influence of the trade unions.
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They felt that their original aims and demands were being diluted.
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To make citron presse, dilute fresh lemon juice with water and add sugar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But diluting the quality of the performer does nothing to protect the Olympic ideal.
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For each study the aliquot was further diluted in 0.9% NaCl solution.
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Sixty years down the line, grandad's bravery genes have been seriously diluted.
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The river can dilute the small amounts of pollutant discharged by the chemical producer.
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They can detect this flavour even when their home water is diluted to one part in several million.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
solution
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Both provide a measure of chain stiffness in dilute solution .
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In a dilute solution in water, it is familiar as a household antiseptic.
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In dilute solutions of strong bases or acids, the quantities are comparable, but for weak bases or acids they are not.
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An expression for the lowering of vapour pressure for dilute solutions can be derived from Raoult's law.
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By assuming in dilute solutions the molar mass can be obtained from the Mark-Houwink relation.
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Glucose in dilute solution in sap-water thus passes through internal passages in the plant until it reaches a growing cell.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Try giving the baby diluted fruit juice
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A source of some confusion is the patient with polyuria and a dilute urine due to primary polydipsia.
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Both provide a measure of chain stiffness in dilute solution.
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He came on, walking in the same direction as Rachaela, the dilute snow sparkling in his hat like sequins.
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In a dilute solution in water, it is familiar as a household antiseptic.
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Some success has been reported in algae control by adding a very dilute copper sulphate or copper citrate solution to the water.
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Water is then fed into the hopper and the dilute liquid fed into the sprayer.
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When albumin is placed in water, dilute salt solutions, or moderately concentrated salt solutions, it remains soluble.