dilute
dilute.01 - water down, make weaker
DILUTE-V NOTES: There's some financial usage of "fully diluted stocks" which I don'tunderstand, but which is clearly adjectival and thus can be ignored. (from dilute.01-v)Aliases:
dilute (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: causal agent
ARG1-PPT: thing weakening
ARG2-EXT: EXT
ARG3-DIR: start point
ARG4-GOL: end point
ARG5-MNR: instrument
ARG1-PPT: thing weakening
ARG2-EXT: EXT
ARG3-DIR: start point
ARG4-GOL: end point
ARG5-MNR: instrument
just transitive
Mr. Hahn said Georgia - Pacific has accounted in its strategy for a `` significant downturn '' in the pulp and paper industry ,
an eventARG0
thatR-ARG0
he said wouldARGM-MOD
temporarilyARGM-TMP
diluterel
earningsARG1
.with extent
William O. McCoy , president of the company 's BellSouth Enterprises Inc. unit , said
the revised agreement with LINARG0
wouldARGM-MOD
diluterel
BellSouth earningsARG1
by about 9 %ARG2
in both 1990 and 1991ARGM-TMP
.ARG1 and ARG5
Before we eat , we should drink a glass of
vegetable juiceARG1
dilutedrel
with warm boiled waterARG5
.