dilute vs gill

dilute

noun
  • An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. 

verb
  • To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares. 

  • To become attenuated, thin, or weak. 

  • To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. 

  • To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. 

adj
  • Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. 

  • Having a low concentration. 

  • Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted. 

gill

noun
  • a female ferret 

  • A gill slit or gill cover. 

  • One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. 

  • The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. 

  • One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs. 

  • A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals. 

  • ravine 

  • a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber 

  • rivulet 

  • The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle. 

  • A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally. 

verb
  • To be or become entangled in a gillnet. 

  • To catch (a fish) in a gillnet. 

  • To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it. 

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