Disseminate vs Dissipate - What's the difference?
disseminate | dissipate |
To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed
To become scattered.
To drive away, disperse.
* Cook
* Hazlitt
To use up or waste.
* Bishop Burnet
* 1931 :
To vanish by dispersion.
As verbs the difference between disseminate and dissipate
is that disseminate is to sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed while dissipate is to drive away, disperse.disseminate
English
Verb
(disseminat)- The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.
Synonyms
* spread * circulate * propagateCoordinate terms
* promulgateDerived terms
* disseminationExternal links
* * ----dissipate
English
Verb
(dissipat)- I soon dissipated his fears.
- The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
- The vast wealth was in three years dissipated .
- So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate'"—to ' dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.