Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which dilutes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry A device that adds a measured amount of
sample to a measured amount ofdiluent
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Examples
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Power is a great diluter of conviction, is it not?
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"Power is a great diluter of conviction, is it not?"
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Or, toast-water may be substituted as a diluter of the milk.
The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother 1859
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At its heart, Obamanomics holds a central flaw: the idea that government acts as a multiplier to capital rather than a diluter and destructor of capital.
Hot Air » Top Picks 2010
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And filing it under "family" now as a diluter, in search of understanding, rings hollow because you can't believe anything the man says about this situation.
Hushed Casket Recent Posts SabanMan 2009
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I was a very strict and accurate measurer and diluter of Milton to the millilitre everafter.
Brit Lit Blogs 2008
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My Q: Registration and trade dress interact — the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups case (under the FTDA) used lack of registration of the claimed elements of the trade dress because the alleged diluter wasn’t copying the whole trade dress, only a couple of elements.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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My Q: Registration and trade dress interact — the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups case (under the FTDA) used lack of registration of the claimed elements of the trade dress because the alleged diluter wasn’t copying the whole trade dress, only a couple of elements.
IPSC: Trademark Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Matter of great Importance in Brewing of wholsome fine Malt-liquors, and is of such Consequence that it concerns every one to know the nature of the water he Brews with, because it is the Vehicle by which the nutritious and pleasant Particles of the Malt and Hop are conveyed into our Bodies, and there becomes a diluter of our Food: Now the more simple and freer every water is from foreign Particles, the better it will answer those
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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