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单词 disperse
释义 dis·perse
I. \də̇ˈspərs, -pə̄s, -pəis\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English dysparsen, from Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere to scatter, from dis- dis- (I) + -spergere (from spargere to strew, scatter) — more at spark
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to cause to break up and go in different ways : send or drive into different places : scatter
  < his command was dispersed by a bayonet charge — T.R.Hay >
 b. : to cause to become spread widely : distribute
  < the party left the bus and dispersed themselves to various hotels >
  < dispersing barges and crews along the route as convenient — C.S.Forester >
 especially : to separate and distribute (as troops or planes) over a large area to avoid offering the enemy a concentrated target
 c. : dissipate, dispel
  < the sun dispersing the vapors of the night >
  < this explanation had at least dispersed the feeling of weirdness that had gripped the colony — O.E.Rölvaag >
2. : to spread or distribute from a fixed or constant source: as
 a. : to spread abroad from a center of supply or control : disseminate
  < disperse news throughout the state >
  < 80 percent of the discharge of this river at Baghdad is dispersed in these marshes — Wilfred Thesiger >
 b. : to cause to diverge
 c. : to break up (light) into colors of the spectrum by refraction or diffraction
 d. : to distribute (as finely divided particles) more or less evenly throughout a liquid, gaseous, or solid medium with the formation of a two-phase system
  < disperse a pigment in an oil by grinding >
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to break up and move or scatter to different places or go in different directions
  < the crowd dispersed at the first shot >
  < his senses … seemed to be dispersing hopelessly and uncontrollably all about him — Hanama Tasaki >
 b. : to become dispersed
  < the particles dispersed throughout the mixture >
2. : to dispel itself : dissipate
 < the fog dispersed toward morning >
Synonyms: see scatter
II. \dəˈs-, (ˈ)di|s-\ adjective
Etymology: Latin dispersus
: widely distributed by dispersion : dispersed
 < vitamin B is so disperse in rice polishings that ten tons of raw material yields only an ounce of vitamin — A.C.Morrison >
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