diffuse - use in sentences

Object

  • tension: Food security can diffuse tensions and can be used as a tool to bring peace.
  • situation: The assessors from Lehman's wanted to see how I would diffuse the situation, ' she said.
  • pollution: More recently his research has concerned with water quality in relation to diffuse pollution and its alleviation through the implementation of best management practice.
  • bomb: We feel addressing the problems with a structured and planned strategy for the future will diffuse the pensions time bomb.
  • light: You should try to diffuse the light or angle it at roughly a forty five degree angle.

Preposition: in

  • direction: In this way, the PM is permitted to diffuse only in an outward direction.

Modifying Another Word

  • widely: His name is very widely diffused among the Norse people.

Modifies a noun

  • thickening: There is a diffuse thickening of the gastric wall.
  • scattering: Thus the observed diffuse scattering can be assumed to be almost entirely from phonon scattering.
  • reflectance: When the light is reflected by diffusion then the reflectance is called diffuse reflectance.
  • pollution: For example, diffuse pollution which results from the way in which land is managed falls within the scope of the Directive.
  • mesothelioma: There is no 15 week waiting period for the prescribed disease diffuse mesothelioma.
  • lymphoma: The most common histological type is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Modifying Another Word

  • rapidly: This produces a very narrow gap across which oxygen and carbon dioxide can rapidly diffuse.
  • freely: The membrane is fluid, with individual lipid molecules able to diffuse freely within the bilayer.
  • slowly: The active ingredient diffuses slowly through the coating giving good residual control.
  • somewhat: The spatial area covered by this project is, by virtue of the patchy nature of the data, somewhat diffuse.

Preposition: through

  • membrane: That sugar and ions ( like sodium ) can diffuse through cell membranes.

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