How To Use Dissipate In A Sentence

If gold was really to be demonetized, then the enormous stocks relative to flows would have to be dissipated first through consumption.
Slow simmering retains the alcohol; fast boiling dissipates it.
Such a mixing of configurations is present in proteins, where the energy of the excited state is dissipated among many conformational substates.
Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
That sinking feeling we'd experienced as we watched the snow fall when it was supposed to be melting dissipated.

In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
It meant resisting the temptation to chase off after secondary objectives and, in the process, dissipate resources.
Whereas resistive potential dividers dissipate electrical power, capacitive dividers do not.
Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.
Flynn was still handsome, though dissipated.
The volunteers' energy was dissipated by the enormous amounts of paperwork involved in the project.
These agents will evaporate and dissipate much more rapidly in hot, dry weather.
The spirit that was dissipated after a thousand vanities is now collected and made to centre in God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune.
There is no denying that this is an odd moment captured forever - the curious intersection of a revolution and a dissipated Hollywood has-been.
A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
The warmth of the conversation soon dissipated the chill in the air.
Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity. Hornblower And The Hotspur
When tests failed to show enough drugs in the victim's system to make a case stick — Halcion, the sleeping pill Dahmer often used, dissipates quickly — the police dropped the matter. Secrets of a Serial Killer
William Howell, who had been a boatswain at Trafalgar and a sergeant at Waterloo, turns up in the journals years later, aged 55, on the Dryad, described as "very much dissipated and suffered much from stricture and perineal tumours". Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
Brant's anger dissipated at Gemmel's anger with himself.
More efficient drives dissipate less heat and hence require smaller heat sinks-traditionally the largest component.
Ryan's whole body tensed up and his jokey, light-hearted aura dissipated in a second.
It let out a scream and dissipated, struck to the heart by the ebon blade. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
As the sun set, the blazing heat dissipated to be replace by chilling winds that whipped at the Traveler's clothes and cut down to his bones.
On the basis of studies on aeration tract bucket flow energy dissipation in lower weir on soft foundation, a new type of energy dissipater was put forward.
Once the faceplate and the baseplate are attached to each other, the capacitor are de-energized and the electric field is dissipated.
He wished he could hate them all at the same time, so his hatred would be dissipated, causing him to become an effete nobody sneering at the majority's intellectual pygmyism. An East Wind Coming
As the ultrasound energy is transmitted through the tissue by the sending crystal, some is dissipated, some refracted, and some reflected back to the receiving crystal.
We continued to watch in silence as the smoke slowly dissipated, leaving only the cloudless, star-punctured sky.
The smoke from the cigar dissipated into the atmosphere of the room as he exhaled.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
Enjoying a dissipated Saturday lie-in, listening to loud music whilst contemplating the ceiling, I somehow didn't hear the front door being opened.
How does a person not lose him or herself when he or she dissipates such a powerful building block of humanity?
The other method is to dissipate the extra 3. 2 kilometers per second by passing through the upper atmosphere.
With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
There are signs, however, that other disinflationary forces are starting to dissipate. Times, Sunday Times
And what's fascinating about this love story, if you will, is that the intensity of that honeymoon stage never seemed to dissipate, which is very unusual, when you think about it. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2007
Her laughter soon dissipated the tension in the air.
The clouds that had blocked the sun during the day had dissipated, scattered by the winds to reveal the stars sprawled in all their glory across the sky.
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
The blue matter floated in the air for a moment, then it dissipated and vanished.
The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.
Water prevents dehydration and allows heat to be dissipated through evaporative cooling and urination.
Tomorrow Night: A thundershower or two may linger but any are likely to swiftly dissipate and even 10% coverage will be generous. Forecast: Heat today, humidity tomorrow
You see, in open areas - with plenty of fresh air and breeze going about - the smoke dissipates and goes off into the atmosphere.
On impact, most of the kinetic energy dissipates as heat.
The great families of England were built on this principle of primogeniture of sons and their properties were not dissipated as the properties of European nobility were.
In addition, superconductivity was not particularly well understood at the time, especially the effects that would cause a magnet to dramatically and suddenly lose its superconducting powers, a phenomenon known as a "quench" that is invariably accompanied by a loud bang and a scurry to find the exit as the magnetic energy is suddenly dissipated. Tevatron collider falls silent today after 26 years of smash hits
Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
As the basal part of the stem was linearly elastic, there was no energy dissipated by viscous friction.
He recalled his dissipated youth spent in nightclubs and bars.
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
I know from experience that avalanches occur swiftly and cruelly, and our relief when the ground eventually levelled out soon dissipated in a struggle through waist deep snowdrifts.
I usually find ribs a bit fatty, but the process of poaching and slow cooking had ensured that the fat had dissipated and all that remained was beautifully tender meat.
Don't analyze or mentalize any of it; just say "I forgive myself for judging myself" until you feel calmer or the judgments dissipate. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
These showers are called streamer showers, which is very light rain that doesn't get much development and usually dissipates within a few hours, said Clay Anderson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Statesman - AP Sports
Mouna is used solely for the purpose of channelling the energy dissipated in talking to a higher practice, such as japa, prayer, or svadhyaya, the study of spiritual writings see pages 118-19. The Sivananda Companion To Meditation
I remained close with the new gals until high school, when our communication slowly dissipated.
So the waves tend to kind of dissipate and it allows for a smoother surface, better times. CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008
The smoke has dissipated, and everything is all crystal clear now!
There's a reduction in efficiency as energy is dissipated in heat.
By contrast, on film it looked like the mere aggregation of takes and cutaways; its timbres and its fluency dissipated and finally disappeared.
Salibi turned around and made a remark that everyone enjoyed and the tension dissipated. CHAMELEON
When you feel tension building, find something fun to do. You'll find that the stress you feel will dissipate and your thoughts will become clearer.
At their simplest, they rely on a coolant that absorbs and dissipates heat from the house.
Coughing lightly several more times, the black-haired player rubbed at her eyes and leaned against a wall while the smoke slowly dissipated.
Firstly, gas is lighter than air and leakages dissipate in the atmosphere rather than forming a local hazard.
Now, the hominal being whose heart has thus been purified and sanctified is invincible, and the enchantments of hell cannot prevail against him if he makes use of this sacrifice to dissipate the Spirits of Evil. Là-bas
I took a long, deep drag and watched the smoke rings dissipate in the cool evening sky.
It not only contributes to the overall scent of the perfume, but evens out and “anchors” thevarious elements that make up a fragranceso that they do not dissipate too quickly afterthe perfume isapplied. The Best Stuff on Earth?!
If this boycott has any force maybe the Jewish-Muslim "problem" will dissipate with the departure of Jewish studentry. Inside Higher Ed
Pushkin continued his dissipated life after 1826 but with less gusto.
“Ju zhe cheng xing, san zhe cheng feng” pronounced jü juh chung shing, sahn juh chung fung means energy accumulates to form a shape; energy dissipates just like wind flowing away. Tao II
Both were very hot and seemed to just kind of dissipate later in the week. CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2004
When the yellow cube had dissipated itself in curling fragrance, and he was deliberating about rolling a second, Borg suddenly spoke. CHAPTER 22
The human body usually emits heat by way of convection and radiation, and in hot weather the body has to dissipate perspiration by transpiration.
And really, these are not optimal specimens for looking for chloroform, which is a volatile substance, meaning that it quickly dissipates into the air. CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2009
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
A third email quoted a line from the Tunisian national anthem, written by Aboul-Qacem Echebbi: " Lorsqu'un jour le peuple veut la vie, force est au destin d'obtempérer, force est aux ténèbres de s'évanouir, et force est aux chaînes de se briser" When a people aspire to live, destiny is doomed to comply, darkness is forced to dissipate and chains are forced to break loose. Judie Fein: Why You Should Travel to Tunisia
The handling of scale is masterly: a lovers 'chase can expand into a ferocious group bacchanale in a second; a stageful of violent emotion can be dissipated with a single dancer's shrug. Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal: Agua
As the meeting progressed, it was clear the anger, the resentment and the recriminations had, temporarily at least, dissipated.
It was two to three hours before the leak was contained, the cloud had dissipated, and the crisis was over.
Possibly, by 1933 the party was equally disliked by the town workers; the enthusiasms of 1929 had been dissipated by hunger, privation, overcrowding, and regimentation by party bosses.
In fact, the urge had dissipated somewhat, now that the promise of a chance at R 'shiel was in the offing. TREASON KEEP
My, where has all that excitement, romance and discovery dissipated itself to?
I'll bet if you'd cut out that travelin 'roadshow it would dissipate. Armey warns against third party politics
A puff of green smoke glistened upward and dissipated.
It's likely to dissipate resources ineffectually and spread potential damage far.
But Conservatives are hoping the start of the long parliamentary recess and the finalisation of the judicial inquiry into the hacking will see the feverish energy surrounding the scandal finally dissipate as the public focuses on the economy and the euro crisis. David Cameron spoke to Rupert Murdoch's executives about BSkyB bid
"You lead a dissipated life," the mother railed.
A wave of defeat seemed to wash over the slaves, and they slumped, confidence and hope draining as the smoke dissipated into the night air.
To her surprise, after their anger had dissipated, they were physically and emotionally more intimate.
Early British incendiaries filled with thermite - a mixture of iron oxide and powdered aluminium - produced great heat but this dissipated quickly and was confined to a small area.
You dissipate resources by maintaining economically unviable units.
Thus by mid-1999 much of the positive effect of the devaluation on the real incomes of rural producers had been dissipated.
It has few distinguishable stars and is mainly notable for a nebulous, cloud-like cluster which ancient astronomers regarded as an area where energies were dissipated.
Prosecutors added that Mrs. Ruth Madoff, while not a party to the proceeding, cannot be trusted to enforce not to unilaterally "dissipate" the assets. ABC News: ABCNews
A fundamental law of conditioning is that any pattern that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate.
The thin cloud of smoke rushed out and dissipated into the air.
The fog dissipated when the sun rose.
The whiff of approbation dissipates only slowly upon her departure. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
He thinks the poorish showing of Muslim businessmen reflects Hindu practices that allow the build-up of family wealth, while Islam dissipates it by mandating legacies to distant kin.
Most traders didn't believe it, and the notion dissipated when the market plunged again. Dow Ends
His mood was lightening up, the adrenaline from battle beginning to dissipate to a level he could control.
Should one develop overhead take shelter until it dissipates.
By spreading out the hottest components on the die, chip designers can help dissipate that heat more efficiently but this still doesn't eliminate the existence of hot spots on the die.
In her youth she seemed to dissipate almost compulsively.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
As their final echoing shrieks of despair dissipated into silence the two figures began to fade. SANDS OF TIME
It is astonishing how our prejudices change from youth to middle age, even without any remarkable interposition of fortune; I do not say dissipate, or even dispel, which is much more doubtful -- but they change. Phoebe, Junior
Flynn was still handsome, though dissipated.
Francis dissipated his large fortune inherited from his grandfather in a few years.
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
It had dissipated like a brume in a breeze.
It's dramatically fragile, more pronouncedly rhythmic and spends its energy for the first four minutes in forward motion until exhaustion dissipates its momentum.
You remind the mechanic that the man in the landau has been the ruin of thousands, and you mention people whom he himself knows, people in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little all he has dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
Take your head away, you don't care a fig that my flowers will wear a dissipated recumbence; remember the dinner and ball. A Heart-Song of To-day
By this time, the sedating medications usually are significantly dissipated, and the patient is alert and oriented and able to lift his or her own leg.
Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned. Life of Lord Byron
The massive current from a space storm heats the ionosphere, which dissipates energy by immediately ejecting some of its own oxygen and hydrogen ions into space.
A young man who gets drunk or dissipates otherwise, who offers as an excuse, "Well, I was feeling kind of discontented and had to do something," is afflicted with the wrong kind of discontent in its most virulent form. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
The studies also indicate that the ceramic readily dissipates energy, meaning that it could be useful for damping vibrations in machinery.
Subsequent bulletins were upbeat but a muscle problem would not dissipate and, a further ten days later, Yeats was scratched from the Derby.
In minimum-security prisons, like the camp in Florence, Colorado where I currently am confined, racial tensions tend to dissipate, if not disappear.
Would there be a constant tension and anxiety or would that dissipate after a while? THE EXECUTION
Therefore, the texture of the bottoms of channels should be made rough with vegetation or riprap, and outlet structures should be properly designed with energy dissipaters.
From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night. Flashman's Lady
This area is what we refer to as a wash, meaning it is a place that is -- I guess you could say it's kind of a roadway for heavy rainwater, for floodwaters to go through and then move out towards the open ground, out towards the desert, and then dissipate. CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2006
The part uses a thermally conductive polycarbonate to draw heat away from the controller and dissipate it into the surrounding air.
The fact that very few of the cathedral's stained-glass windows could be opened meant the smoke was slow to dissipate.
deplorably dissipated and degraded
And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way. Camilla
Matter accretes into forms while the energy contained in those forms seeks to be released, either to build other structures or to dissipate into the heat of entropy.
The alcohol fumes and oxygen/nitrous mixture would be able to dissipate if the drapes were tented.
The luscious perfumed bouquet dissipates any apprehensions, though, and prepares one for the waves of spicy yet refined flavors.
Recovery is not going to be aided by encouraging cash rich companies to dissipate their savings by investing in uneconomic projects, nor by enabling bankrupt companies to borrow more money.
I could hear her begging my father for my forgiveness, but I could also tell that she was failing as my father's voice dissipated completely.
In this time there arose a widespread belief in the Heat Death of the Universe, the idea that the cosmos as a whole would eventually fizzle out just as a bouncing ball gradually dissipates its energy and comes to rest.
The amount of power dissipated in even a standard steel ball bearing hub is quite small.
This kinetic energy will be dissipated in the form of heat on impact of the clip with the magnet.
The clouds were starting to stretch out and dissipate as the Sun's warmth moved further away.
Their energy of motion rapidly dissipates in the form of heat, light, and ionization, creating short-lived streaks of light.
A new form of energy dissipater named suspended grid plunge pool is posed through the hydraulic model experiment of diversion tunnel in Jilintai first-or.
However, it has also been noted that elevated turbulent dissipation is by itself insufficient proof of substantial biogenic mixing, because much of the turbulent kinetic energy of small animals is injected below the Ozmidov buoyancy length scale, where it is primarily dissipated as heat by the fluid viscosity before it can affect ocean mixing2. Charles darwin (the physicist) was right
If the state spreads itself too thinly across the disconnected and diffuse networks of personal identity, it will simply dissipate.
The tiling was a blur in the sight, a black blot of shadow that normal radiance would neither dissipate nor illuminate. Conan the Adventurer
While the fins help dissipate the heat, you may be wondering where the fan is.
It is fed from springwater from the fells, and the surplus dissipates through the fault so it never overflows.
Excess energy has to be dissipated harmlessly as heat.
Gas bubbles that were trapped in the lines dissipated somewhat, but never completely disappeared.
But here, the impact dissipates in the "wink-wink" cleverness of the mailbox / porno juxtaposition, and in the excess of little pictures, undercutting the "presentness" of the other images. Undefined
It turns out that all the carbon dioxide and pollutants we are pumping out through our tailpipes and smokestacks doesn't dissipate as readily as had been previously thought.
Those who dissipate their spirits in debauching women cannot apply themselves to serious study.
Went and bought a new pair of winter cycling gloves today, these have better padding on the palm which should dissipate the pressure on the median nerve.
Throughout the next four hours, we lit several smoke and flare signals, but the smoke dissipated each time in the trees before rising high enough to be effective.
led a dissipated life
All the aggro has dissipated and everything about him has changed: his feet are nowhere to be seen, he leans across the desk to engage more fully; even his face opens up, his eyes widen and one catches a glimpse of that younger, unhardened self. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
We do have a couple of heated propagators, but this method is much quicker and makes use of existing heat that would otherwise just dissipate.
Sure enough, there was a huge shell of clumpy, hole-riddled gas that looked like a nearly dissipated planetary nebula.
The royal motorcade left in a mass of waving and cheering, then some of the crowd began to dissipate. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
They are always lounging against the store windows or posts for support, bleary-eyed, dissipated, swaggery, staggery. Prudence Says So
It is the function of the poet to realize and revere the mystery, but it is the duty of philosophy to explore and dissipate it, as far as possible, for _mystery is the foe of human progress_. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7
Yet, the air of mystery surrounding each character never dissipates, even after the last line of each monologue is spoken.
Would there be a constant tension and anxiety or would that dissipate after a while? THE EXECUTION
I don't hold on to the anger, if I can just let it dissipate on its own.
The couple decide to try a live-in relationship, primarily platonic, though the boundaries soon dissipate.
It would attempt to lock future generations into a prejudice that has already dissipated and that someday may disappear.
You remind the mechanic that the man in the landau has been the ruin of thousands and you mention people whom he himself knows, people in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little all has been dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes. The Romany Rye
The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.
When the flash had dissipated, Cecil saw a small indent about the size of a good-sized door in the wall of darkness.
The craft survived the journey with a rounded, blunt heat shield covered with ablative material, which evaporated away to dissipate heat.
The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.
An evaporation system is used to dissipate heat from the sun and protect the shuttle's electronics.
Dismiss Ectoplasm. Dissipates ectoplasmic targets.
They were refitted at the Car Repair with a coupler at each end and heavy steel plate risers to raise the hot slabs above the floor of the car, which was covered with six inches of slag to dissipate the heat.
On the whole, though, these conflicts have dissipated and evanesced as the West has almost universally adopted democratic forms of governance. How to Manage Savagery
A specially designed fluid damper used as negative shock pulse generator in the shock resistance test system to dissipate the shock input energy in transient time duration was presented.
A fat, stalwart, bacchant, boorish race they are, giving signs of anything but fasting and flagellation; and I know of nothing that would so dissipate the romance which invests monks and nuns in the eyes of some, like bringing a ship-load of them over to this country, and letting their admirers see and smell them. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
A man who has experienced tensions in the past as he and his international colleagues confounded all expectations to win the European Championships, beating the host nation in the final, he knew the perfect way to dissipate them.
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
For the potential for resistance not to be dissipated a political alternative to the system is crucial.
In our life we are laughing more happily than anybody else.But when the crowd dissipates,we feel much more lonely than anybody else.
Even though hysteria as a disease may be described as one and indivisible, there are yet to be found, among the ordinary and fairly healthy population, vague and diffused hysteroid symptoms which are dissipated in Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
Hoping that this severe liability would dissipate over time, he joined the Virginia Players, appearing in a variety of minor rôles: as “Falliero” in Abaellinor, or The Great Bandit; “Allan-a-Dale” in Robin Hood; “Harry Thunder” in The Tale of Mystery; “Young Woodland” in Cheap Living; and more. Nevermore
The volunteers' energy was dissipated by the enormous amounts of paperwork involved in the project.
The smile she'd had on her face slowly dissipated as a feeling of forlornness washed over her.
But whatever idea was forming in his mind, was dissipated by the she-wolf, who advanced upon him, sniffed noses with him for a fleeting instant, and then resumed her coy retreat before his renewed advances. The Hunger Cry
They also dissipate far less heat than today's transistors.
I'm really just using these as nominal labels for degrees of saturation or non-saturation with alethic quirks -- "mythic" for the point where the protagonist is themselves arcane/exotic/chimeric, "non-mythic" for the zones where the quirks are dissipated to the point of being subliminal or absent. A Theory of Modes and Modalities
The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
Whereas resistive potential dividers dissipate electrical power, capacitive dividers do not.
The chattering dissipates a bit and a few of the nodder-offers open a curious eye at the startling silence. Archive 2008-10-01
He wound down the windows to dissipate the heat.
It stands outside my window like a huge lamp that sheds its light into my room, and even when the day is overcast, they dissipate the melancholy and scatter away all mistiness.
Therefore, it seems reasonable to propose that for male hippies as well as male residents of the Iowa frontier, tensions expressed through the manhood act — counterbalanced, at times, by the restraining hands of men like Murcott — dissipated some of the emotional energy that might otherwise have found expression in internecine violence. 48 Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
The tension in the room had dissipated.
A little while later, he could hear the sounds of something sizzling, and a rich, meaty smell began to dissipate through the air, setting his stomach to growling and reminding him of his hunger.
It's not yet possible to predict whether the political system will completely dissipate away under the forces of inertia, or whether some renewed political structure will emerge from the ether.

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