单词 | dilute |
释义 | dilute (daɪluːt ) Word forms: dilutes , diluting , diluted 1. verb 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. [VERB noun preposition] The liquid is then diluted. [be VERB-ed] The poisons seeping from contaminated land quickly dilute in the water. [VERB] dilution uncountable noun ...ditches dug for sewage dilution. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A dilute liquid is very thin and weak, usually because it has had water added to it. ...a dilute solution of bleach. Synonyms: watered down, weak, diluted, watery 3. verb 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 noun] Serious attention is being given to diluting the value of personal tax allowances. [VERB noun] Synonyms: reduce, weaken, diminish, temper dilution uncountable noun ...a potentially devastating dilution of earnings per share. [+ of] Collocations: dilute a brand Even in prison, he wasn't going to dilute the brand. Times, Sunday Times It's a quick way to dilute your brand. Times, Sunday Times Any attempt to boost sales beyond a certain point dilutes the brand. Times, Sunday Times Certain rival clubs take the view that this approach 'dilutes the brand'. Times, Sunday Times In order to target aspirational middle classes, it has lowered its prices and brought in a younger, brighter range, which some analysts fear dilutes the brand. Times, Sunday Times The second and subsequent crops will need some dilute liquid feeding. The Sun (2009) Give them a dilute liquid feed before planting. The Sun (2011) I use a diluted liquid seaweed on most plants because it's organic and is taken in easily. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The cupboards and doors are washed with a dilute solution of emulsion. Times, Sunday Times One would expect that a dilute solution would smell like ammonia too, but more faintly. The Times Literary Supplement Instead, a dilute solution smells fishy. The Times Literary Supplement In order to coat the tips, one can either vapor coat the tip or dip the tips into a dilute solution containing the molecular ink. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Stand development instead uses a very dilute solution of developer, often one part developer to fifty or one hundred parts water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rampant discounting will dilute the effect of the sales increase on profits, but retailers are in no mood to quibble with good news. Times, Sunday Times Provide snacks to go with — and dilute the effect of — anything you're drinking, and provide plenty of water. Times, Sunday Times This snippet, as well as showing that it remains a business heavily exposed to the construction sector, also demonstrates how much it has diversified to dilute the effect. Times,Sunday Times The amount of water drunk by elephants each day would also dilute the effect of the fruit to such an extent that they would not be affected by it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That could dilute the impact of primary school league tables, which are based on test results. Times, Sunday Times Early sales dilute the impact. Times, Sunday Times The procedure has 'diluted the impact of the law, so as to avoid the sort of humiliation and conflict that arose from the old approach'. Times, Sunday Times They come from a particular angle - that of determined unbelief - which dilutes their impact. Times, Sunday Times The film did get sidetracked by other political issues, which diluted the impact, but it was still utterly compelling. Times,Sunday Times The charity said that the study should not be used to dilute this message. Times, Sunday Times It was meant primarily for raising awareness, so repeating it would dilute the message and abet persistent polluters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their number and fractured structure succeeds only in confusing and diluting their message. Times,Sunday Times They wanted to know how to present the gospel simply yet without diluting the message. Christianity Today There are practical steps that could be taken without diluting the message that the country remains open for business. Times, Sunday Times They resist residential development for it would dilute their power. Times, Sunday Times Future emperors would continue to dilute the power of the office by transferring its powers to newly created offices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, policymakers needed to find alternative ways of diluting their power and to work out what measures were needed 'quickly'. Times, Sunday Times Within a group of 20 individual discussions may occur, diluting the power of the leader. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The higher capital levels dilute the returns per share accordingly. Times, Sunday Times Resolution did not completely rule out more deals, but said that it would 'not contemplate acquisitions that would dilute the returns likely to emerge from the three acquisitions already made'. Times, Sunday Times Yet most bankers took the opposite view: the extra capital would simply dilute returns and make bank shares less attractive. Times, Sunday Times Many investors were already involved in more established lines and did not want competition and distractions to dilute their returns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fears that this means the company will raise fresh equity, and dilute the value of the existing shares, look wide of the mark. Times, Sunday Times This would further dilute the value of shares. Times, Sunday Times Offers to help to ease supply bottlenecks will, again, be impossible to resist on moral grounds, and will dilute the value of the commercial opportunity. Times, Sunday Times Under the deal, the authorities bought one billion of a new class of shares in an attempt to shore up the group without diluting the value of existing stock. Times, Sunday Times That's bad for existing shareholders because it dilutes the value of their holdings. Globe and Mail Translations: Chinese: 稀释, 稀释过的 Japanese: 希釈する, 希釈した |
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