Dilates vs Dilutes - What's the difference?
dilates | dilutes |
(dilate)
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To enlarge; to make bigger.
To become wider or larger; to expand.
(ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
* Shakespeare
* Crabbe
(dilute)
To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
* Blackmore
To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
* Sir Isaac Newton
(stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
Having a low concentration.
Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.
As verbs the difference between dilates and dilutes
is that dilates is third-person singular of dilate while dilutes is third-person singular of dilute.dilates
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Verb
(head)dilate
English
Verb
(dilat)- The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.
- His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
- Do me the favour to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them and thee till now.
- But still on their ancient joys dilate .
Derived terms
* dilatability * dilatable * dilation * dilativeSee also
* diluteAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----dilutes
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* duelistdilute
English
Verb
(dilut)- Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
- Lest these colours should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.
- it dilutes easily
Adjective
(en adjective)- Clean the panel with a dilute , neutral cleaner.