transcription, транскрипция: [ daɪlu:t ]
( dilutes, diluting, diluted)
1.
If a liquid is diluted or dilutes , it is added to or mixes with water or another liquid, and becomes weaker.
If you give your baby juice, dilute it well with cooled, boiled water...
The liquid is then diluted...
The poisons seeping from Hanford’s contaminated land quickly dilute in the water.
VERB : V n prep , be V-ed , V , also V n
• di‧lu‧tion
...ditches dug for sewage dilution.
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2.
A dilute liquid is very thin and weak, usually because it has had water added to it.
...a dilute solution of bleach.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
3.
If someone or something dilutes a belief, quality, or value, they make it weaker and less effective.
There was a clear intention to dilute black voting power...
VERB : V n
• di‧lu‧tion
...a potentially devastating dilution of earnings per share.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n