Dilute vs Downplay - What's the difference?
dilute | downplay |
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.
To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
In lang=en terms the difference between dilute and downplay
is that dilute is to become attenuated, thin, or weak while downplay is to de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.As verbs the difference between dilute and downplay
is that dilute is to make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water while downplay is to de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.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
* * ----downplay
English
Alternative forms
* play downVerb
(en verb)- He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.
