Dilute
[daɪ'l(j)uːt;dɪ-] or [daɪ'l(j)ut]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; 'cut bourbon'.
埃罗尔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
(v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
(v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
(a.) Diluted; thin; weak.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Attenuate, reduce, weaken, make thin, make weak.
a. Thin, diluted, attenuated, weak, not strong.
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to make thinner or more liquid: to diminish the strength flavour &c. of by mixing esp. with water.—v.i. to become mixed.—adj. diminished in strength by mixing with water.—adj. Dil′uent diluting.—n. that which dilutes.—ns. Dilute′ness; Dilū′tion.
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例句/造句/用法:
- When the cell consists of copper, zinc, and dilute sulphuric acid, the electromotive force has a definite value which is always the same no matter what the size or shape of the cell. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The hydrogen formed by the chemical action of the dilute sulphuric acid on the zinc moves toward the copper electrode, as in the simple voltaic cell. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A strip of copper and a strip of zinc are placed in a glass containing dilute sulphuric acid, a solution composed of oxygen, hydrogen, sulphur, and water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The unacted upon portions are dissolved out by dilute hydrochloric acid, leaving a black permanent image. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If a clean glass rod is dipped into very dilute acid, such as acetic, sulphuric, or nitric acid, and then lightly touched to the tongue, it will taste sour. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Then, too, some other chemical, such as bichromate of potassium, or ammonium chloride, may be used instead of dilute sulphuric acid. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The pile and cup battery of Volta had been succeeded by the trough battery--a long box filled with separated plates set in dilute acid. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Senefelder, in his subsequent improvements, gave a slight relief to the letters by the original plan of using diluted aqua-fortis, by which means the impressions obtained were blacker. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The fact that the oxygen of the air is diluted as it were with so large a proportion of nitrogen, prevents fires from sweeping over the world and destroying everything in their path. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Rub with muriatic acid diluted with water, care being taken that it is not too strong. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- If the tumblers be filled with strong diluted acid, the motion is at first very rapid and powerful, but it soon almost entirely ceases. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The porous jar is then filled to the same height as the copper solution in the jar with diluted sulphuric acid, in the proportions of one of acid to twenty of water. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The supper, consisting of bread, and milk diluted with tepid water, was brought in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The strength of the solution was regulated by first obtaining a saturated solution of the nitrate of silver, and afterwards diluting it with six or eight times its volume of water. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Silas inwardly approved of these preparations, trusting they might end in Mr Venus's diluting his intellect. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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