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- English Word Diffusing Definition of Diffuse
- English Word Diffusion Definition The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
- English Word Diffusion Definition The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
- English Word Diffusive Definition Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
- English Word Diffusively Definition In a diffusive manner.
- English Word Diffusiveness Definition The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
- English Word Diffusivity Definition Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
- English Word Dig Definition To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
- English Word Dig Definition To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
- English Word Dig Definition To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
- English Word Dig Definition To thrust; to poke.
- English Word Dig Definition To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
- English Word Dig Definition To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- English Word Dig Definition To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- English Word Dig Definition A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
- English Word Dig Definition A plodding and laborious student.
- English Word Digamist Definition One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
- English Word Digamma Definition A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
- English Word Digammate Definition Alt. of Digammated
- English Word Digammated Definition Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /.