Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make unlike or dissimilar.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To cause to undergo dissimilation.
- intransitive verb To become unlike or dissimilar.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To undergo dissimilation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make unlike; cause to differ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render dissimilar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare, transitive To make
dissimilar orunlike . - verb rare, intransitive To become
dissimilar orunlike .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make dissimilar; cause to become less similar
- verb become dissimilar or less similar
- verb become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Microsoft's right to protect its private property interferes with a hacker's right to free speech, i.e. to dissimilate pirated copies of Windows 7.
Seth Engel: How Tom Cruise Is Stealing Your Liberty Seth Engel 2012
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Microsoft's right to protect its private property interferes with a hacker's right to free speech, i.e. to dissimilate pirated copies of Windows 7.
Seth Engel: How Tom Cruise Is Stealing Your Liberty Seth Engel 2012
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The Waitt Institute has set up a Web site - searchforamelia. org - to dissimilate data collected during the expedition.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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Some of it has to do with modeling and being able to dissimilate hardware in the loop work which is really being able to model with hardware without using the hardware.
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