dilute vs lop

dilute

verb
  • To become attenuated, thin, or weak. 

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

  • To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. 

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

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

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

  • Having a low concentration. 

  • Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted. 

lop

verb
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. 

  • To allow to hang down. 

  • To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. 

noun
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree. 

  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat. 

  • A flea. 

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