| 单词 | diffuse |
| 释义 | diffuse (once / 613 pages) adjv Diffuse mean spread out, or the action of spreading out. If lots of people in school believe invisible angels are everywhere, you could say that opinion is diffuse. You might even think angels are diffuse as well. As a verb, diffuse means to spread something out, but also applies to spreading things such as ideas or culture so that they become widely known. When something is diffused, it's mixed in, and when you drop propaganda pamphlets out of airplanes you're diffusing the propaganda. The adjective comes from Latin diffusus, from diffundere "to pour in different directions," from the prefix dis- "apart" plus fundere "to pour." WORD FAMILYdiffuse: diffused, diffusely, diffuseness, diffuser, diffuses, diffusing, diffusion, diffusive, diffusor+/diffused: diffusedly/diffuser: diffusers/diffusion: diffusions/diffusive: diffusively/diffusor: diffusors USAGE EXAMPLESNational health spending is also re-accelerating as the law diffuses through the system. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) But by employing a nonlinear structure, Cheng Er — who wrote, directed and edited this film — severely diffuses the story’s dramatic impact. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) The next morning, the woman’s husband arrived at the hospital, enveloped in the same diffuse, blanching rash. The New Yorker(Aug 15, 2016) 1adj spread out; not concentrated in one place a large diffuse organization Syn distributed spread out or scattered about or divided up 2adj lacking conciseness a diffuse historical novel Syn prolix tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length 3adj (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected Syn|Ant diffused, soft concentrated, hard (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source 4v move outward Syn|Hypo|Hyper fan out, spread, spread out percolate spread gradually creepgrow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) bleed, runbe diffused mantlespread over a surface, like a mantle crockrelease color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric distribute, spread distribute or disperse widely 5v spread or diffuse through Syn|Hypo|Hyper imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle spiritise, spiritize imbue with a spirit penetrate, perforate pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance 6v cause to become widely known Syn|Hypo|Hyper broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread circulate, go around, spread become widely known and passed on podcast distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer sowintroduce into an environment generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarizecater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use carry, runinclude as the content; broadcast or publicize air, bare, publicise, publicize make public |
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