Tra từ diffuse - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
widely
▪ The ideology of royal power was already widely diffused in Charles's kingdom after centuries of Merovingian rule.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Critics believe that such action will diffuse the power of Congress.
▪ Many presidential candidates have used humor to diffuse criticism.
▪ The history of the house has been diffused through family legend.
▪ The wind quickly diffused any toxic vapors that may have leaked out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternative energy technologies will be successfully diffused only if realistic assumptions are made about the real economic situation in the Third World.
▪ As solvent diffuses through the membrane, the increase in volume causes the diaphragm to move.
▪ Mental mistakes have diffused the greatest of teams with the most legendary of coaches.
▪ Obtainable under the proprietary name Chlordane, the toxin gradually works down into the soil diffusing into the soil atmosphere.
▪ Serum is placed into a circular-well area and allowed to diffuse into the agar forming antigen antibody complexes.
▪ The smoke will diffuse into other rooms and will get into carpets, drapes and clothing.
▪ This is why the method is often applied to soften and diffuse distant objects or hills, as in atmospheric perspective.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
more
▪ The return flow towards the centre of the wake is more diffuse.
▪ Brain functions become more diffuse in girls, whereas they take up specific locations in the heads of boys.
▪ Biotechnology spending has been more diffuse but it will get at least £100 million a year in government spending.
▪ The new leadership proved more diffuse - beyond the narrow confines of the traditional élite and professional classes - and younger.
▪ The second argument is more diffuse and therefore more difficult to counter.
▪ Sometimes, occupation-specific skills are called for; on other occasions, more diffuse skills are sought.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The new opposition party continues to be a diffuse organization.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even so, in the diffuse community which centred on the church there might be those willing to shelter him.
▪ Local application of platelet concentrates shows potential in treating diffuse mucosal haemorrhage due to thrombocytopenia.
▪ Of these 67 patients, most were cases of diffuse oesophageal spasm or hypertensive lower oesophageal sphincter.
▪ The diffuse energies and compulsions of the teenaged boy must be shaped into the constructive activities of manhood.
▪ The cold clouds seen at 100 micrometres are large and diffuse, evidently just beginning to condense under their own gravity.
▪ This is not to say that power in organizations has become so diffuse and fleeting that it is irrelevant.

diffuse

I. dif‧fuse¹ /dɪˈfjuːz/ verb
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : diffuser, from Latin diffusus, past participle of diffundere 'to spread out']
1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to make heat, light, liquid etc spread through something, or to spread like this
diffuse through/into/across
　 ▪ The pollutants diffuse into the soil.

2. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to spread ideas or information among a lot of people, or to spread like this:
　 ▪ Their ideas diffused quickly across Europe.

3. [TRANSITIVE]
to make a bad feeling or situation less strong or serious:
　 ▪ an attempt to diffuse his anger

—diffusion /dɪˈfjuːʒən/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

II. dif‧fuse² /dɪˈfjuːs/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : diffusus; ⇨ diffuse¹]
1. spread over a large area:
　 ▪ The organization is large and diffuse.

2. using a lot of words and not explaining things clearly and directly:
　 ▪ His writing is diffuse and difficult to understand.

—diffuseness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]