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DIFFUSE
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spread out; not concentrated in one place
Example:
a large diffuse organization
Classified under:
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
Derivation:
diffuseness (the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking conciseness
Example:
a diffuse historical novel
Classified under:
Similar:
prolix (tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they diffuse ... he / she / it diffuses
Past simple: diffused
Past participle: diffused
-ing form: diffusing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to become widely known
Example:
broadcast the news
Synonyms:
broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "diffuse" is one way to...):
air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)
Cause:
circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)
Verb group:
circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diffuse"):
podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)
sow (introduce into an environment)
generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)
carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
diffusion (the act of dispersing or diffusing something)
diffusive (spreading by diffusion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spread or diffuse through
Example:
His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks
Synonyms:
diffuse; imbue; interpenetrate; penetrate; permeate; pervade; riddle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "diffuse" is one way to...):
penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diffuse"):
spiritise; spiritize (imbue with a spirit)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
diffusion (the act of dispersing or diffusing something)
diffusive (spreading by diffusion)
diffusor (optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly)
diffusor (baffle that distributes sound waves evenly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Move outward
Example:
The soldiers fanned out
Synonyms:
diffuse; fan out; spread; spread out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "diffuse" is one way to...):
distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diffuse"):
percolate (spread gradually)
creep (grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface))
bleed; run (be diffused)
mantle (spread over a surface, like a mantle)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
diffusion (the act of dispersing or diffusing something)
Context examples:
If we know how fast they diffuse we can figure out how long the minerals were stored in the magma.
(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)
A biologic subset of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas with a unique molecular signature or expression profile.
(Activated B-Cell-Like Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants, and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Desglymidodrine diffuses poorly across the blood-brain barrier, and is therefore not associated with effects on the central nervous system.
(Midodrine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
These include Burkitt lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, and mantle cell lymphoma.
(B-cell lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)
A rare morphologic variant of bladder adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of malignant glandular epithelial cells and clear cells forming a diffuse pattern.
(Bladder Diffuse Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An aggressive lymphoma with morphologic and molecular genetic features of both diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma.
(B-Cell Lymphoma, Unclassifiable, with Features Intermediate between Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma and Burkitt Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of lymphomas displaying molecular, morphologic, immunophenotypic, and clinical overlap between classical Hodgkin lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
(B-Cell Lymphoma, Unclassifiable, with Features Intermediate between Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma and Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Examples include the diffuse giant cell tumor of tendon sheath and localized giant cell tumor of tendon sheath.
(Benign Synovial Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
It includes the most frequently seen morphologic variants which are: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, small lymphocytic lymphoma and marginal zone B-cell lymphoma. — 2003
(B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
