diluted

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Diluted means made weaker by adding water. Diluted juice, dilute the acid, heavily diluted.

Always add acid to water and never the reverse, because the heat released can boil the water and spit — this is the first safety rule taught in any laboratory. Figuratively, a diluted message or proposal has been weakened by compromise. Note that the Latin means to wash away.

Definitions of diluted

1adjectivedilutedMade weaker by adding water.B2+
“The juice was so diluted that it barely tasted of orange.”

diluted is a state of weakening.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*lewh₃-
Latin
dīlūtus
English
dilute
English, today
diluted

Built from

dīluere · Latin — to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute
dis- · Latin — away, apart
luere · Latin — to wash

dilute comes from Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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diluted in the wild

A normal short shot might look like a ristretto, but in reality, would only be a weaker, more diluted, shot.
Ristretto
In the past, it was imported into US as 96% strength alcohol from Sweden and diluted and bottled in the US.
Svedka
The same direct relationship applies to gases and vapors diluted in air for example.
Dilution (equation)
The diluted solution still contains 10 grams of salt.
Dilution (equation)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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