单词 | disperse |
释义 | disperse —dispersedly /di sperr"sid lee/, adv. —disperser, n. —dispersibility, n. —dispersible, adj. /di sperrs"/, v. , dispersed, dispersing, adj. v.t. 1. to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd. 2. to spread widely; disseminate: to disperse knowledge. 3. to dispel; cause to vanish: The wind dispersed the fog. 4. Physical Chem. to cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas. 5. Optics. to subject (light) to dispersion. v.i. 6. to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: The crowd dispersed. 7. to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish: The smoke dispersed into the sky. adj. 8. Physical Chem. noting the dispersed particles in a dispersion. [1350-1400; ME dispersen, disparsen ( < MF disperser) < L dispersus (ptp. of dispergere), equiv. to di- DI-2 + -sper(g)- scatter (s. of -spergere, comb. form of spargere to scatter, strew) + -sus ptp. suffix] Syn. 1. See scatter. 2. sow, broadcast. 7. disappear, evanesce. Ant. 1. combine, collect. |
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