Diluted
[daɪ'ljuːtɪd] or [daɪ'lutɪd]
Definition
(adj.) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; 'diluted alcohol'; 'a dilute solution'; 'dilute acetic acid' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dilute
(a.) Reduced in strength; thin; weak.
Typist: Maura
Examples
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Rub with muriatic acid diluted with water, care being taken that it is not too strong. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The supper, consisting of bread, and milk diluted with tepid water, was brought in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To transfer the drawing from paper on to the stone, the paper is first sponged with diluted nitric acid, which decomposes the size, and renders it bibulous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Then add 1 drachm of hydrochloric acid previously diluted with 1 ounce of water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Take a tablespoonful every three hours, diluted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- After all group interests in the nation are diluted by space and time: the mere separation in cities and country prevents them from falling into the psychology of the crowd. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Is the _actual cleansing liquid_, and consists of 4 parts of liquid ammonia and 3 of alcohol diluted with water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- To plunge into that medium was to plunge into water slightly diluted with air. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The nitric acid employed for the purpose is diluted with about thirty parts of water, and it is poured over the stone whilst it is inclined on one side. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The diluted aqua-fortis was permitted to rest on the stone five minutes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It goes farther than a whole course of lectures on Honesty is the Best Policy--life diluted into words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The carbonic acid gas is generated from chalk or whiting and diluted sulphuric acid. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He succeeded to some extent in doing so, by means of diluted nitric acid; and he contrived to obtain about fifty good impressions from the stone. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Typist: Maura