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Definition: Diffused |
DiffusedAdjective1. (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material; "diffused light". 2. (of light) not bright or glaring; "a softer diffused radiance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "diffused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: DiffusedSynonym: softened (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Presence | Fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through; over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Diffused |
| English words defined with "diffused": bleed ♦ contagious ♦ Diffusate, Diffusible, diffusion, Diffusivity, dissemination, dusk ♦ Metadiscoidal ♦ Osmose ♦ percolate, Psychism ♦ run ♦ softened, steam ♦ tannic acid, tartaric acid, To go out, twilight ♦ water vapor, water vapour, widespread. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "diffused": adularescence ♦ buried diffused region, buried region ♦ Christian ♦ DIFFUSER OPERATOR, diffusion under epitaxial layer, direct sunlight ♦ electrician, front, epitaxial transistor ♦ isolating ring ♦ LAUGHTER, LIGHTING-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ♦ mesa technology ♦ post-alloy diffusion technique ♦ reflective star-coupler. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Single plant of diffused knapweed. Credit: Jerry Asher. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hungarian Vase" by Craig Young Commentary: "I had to buy this, unusual and looks different from every angle. Camera set for standard light bulb. Subject lit from side 60w and diffused with 40w from above to soften shaddow on yellow card." | "High Key" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "High key light simulation with 1 lamp and high exposure, diffused and contrast increased in photoshop." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Virgil | The spirit within nourishes, and the mind, diffused through all the members, sways the mass and mingles with the whole frame. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The air of wealth and repose diffused about them seemed to comfort their neediness |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The cheeks are a slide from the brows into the valley of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek bones |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Moreover, as responsibility devolves to the individual States, the planning and political process is diffused. (references) | |
Business | The limit of sales channels that serve a specific sector is becoming more and more diffused, thus generating different problems among clients, vendors and VARs or resellers. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | Power, formerly concentrated in the KMT and the institutions it controlled, is now diffused. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. |
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| "Diffused" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 51.82% of the time. "Diffused" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 51.82% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.91% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16.36% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "diffused": buried diffused region ♦ diffuse diffused ♦ diffused light. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "diffused": alloy-diffused, double-diffused, well-diffused. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
diffused led | 4 |
diffused triple | 3 |
diffused light | 2 |
diffused | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "diffused"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shpërndarë (diffuse, diffusive, disseminated, dissipated, rambling, scattered, straggling). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتشر (circulating, common, current, diffuse, expanded, in circulation, outstretched, popular, prevailing, prevalent, rife, spread, widespread). (various references) | |
Chinese | 散开 (Diffuse, Diffusing). (various references) | |
Czech | difúzní, rozptýlený (diffuse, diffusive, dissipated, sparse). (various references) | |
Danish | begravet omraade (buried diffused region, buried region), begravet diffunderet omraade (buried diffused region, buried region). (various references) | |
Dutch | diffuus (licht) (diffuse). (various references) | |
French | diffus (diffuse). (various references) | |
German | verbreitete (bandied, bruited, disseminated, propagated, vulgarized). (various references) | |
Greek | περιοχή βυθισμένου στρώματος από διάχυση (buried diffused region, buried region). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szórt (diffuse). (various references) | |
Italian | diffuso (diffuse, pervasive, rife, widespread), diffusa (diffuse), capillare (capillary, detailed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 乱反射 (diffused reflection). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | らんはんしゃ (diffused reflection). (various references) | |
Korean | 확산하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iffusedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | difuso (absent-minded, diffuse, disseminated, dissipated, prolix, scattered). (various references) | |
Romanian | difuz (diffuse, pale, vague). (various references) | |
Russian | рассеивать рассеянный (diffuse, dispersed), распространенный (frequent, generalized, prevailing, prevalent, rife, wide-spread). (various references) | |
Spanish | difundido (diffusedly, diffusively). (various references) | |
Turkmen | syrylmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розсіяний (diffuse, dispersed, disseminated, dissipated, sparse), розкиданий (diffuse, rambling, straggling, straggly), поширений (accepted, amplified, common, prevailing, prevalent, wide-spread). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "diffused": interdiffused. (additional references) | |
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"Diffused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diffusa, difuse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "diffused" (pronounced dufyuw"zd) |
| 7 | d u f y uw" z d | defused. |
| 6 | -u f y uw" z d | refused, suffused. |
| 5 | -f y uw" z d | confused, fused, infused, transfused. |
| 4 | -y uw" z d | abused, accused, amused, bemused, disabused, excused, misused, mused, overused, recused, underused, unused, used. |
| 3 | -uw" z d | bruised, cruised, enthused, oozed, perused, reused. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-f-f-i-s-u" | |
-1 letter: diffuse. | |
-3 letters: defis, dudes, duffs, feuds, fiefs, fifed, fifes, fused, sided. | |
-4 letters: defi, died, dies, dude, duds, dues, duff, effs, feds, feud, feus, fids, fief, fife, fuds, fuse, ides, seif, side, sudd, sued, used. | |
-5 letters: did, die, dis, dud, due, dui, eds, eff, efs, fed, feu, fid, fie, fud, ids, iff, ifs, sei, sue. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-f-f-i-s-u" | |
+5 letters: interdiffused. | |
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