To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.
To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
Having a low concentration.
Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.
Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
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.
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Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
a dilute calico