Diluted vs Dilute - What's the difference?
diluted | 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 diluted and dilute
is that diluted is past tense of dilute while dilute is to make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.As adjectives the difference between diluted and dilute
is that diluted is that has had something added in order to dilute it while 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.