Dilute vs Disperse - What's the difference?
dilute | disperse |
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.
(intransitive) To scatter in different directions
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
* Cowper
(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
(intransitive) To disseminate
(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
(intransitive) To distribute throughout
As verbs the difference between dilute and disperse
is that dilute is to make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water while disperse is to scatter in different directions.As an adjective dilute
is having a low concentration.dilute
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.
See also
* (Concentration) * dilateReferences
* * ----disperse
English
Verb
- The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
- Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .