verb
definition
To drive away, disperse.
definition
To use up or waste; squander.
definition
To vanish by dispersion.
definition
To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
definition
To be dissolute in conduct.
Examples of dissipates in a Sentence
Sports cards are family heirlooms and childhood memories, and when their novelty dissipates, one needs a good site to buy and sell sports cards.
Once the tinted dead skin cells begin to chaff, the bronzed glow dissipates and fades.
In the Bessemer process, and indeed in most high-temperature processes, to operate on a large scale has, in addition to the usual economies which it offers in other industries, a special one, arising from the fact that from a large hot furnace or hot mass in general a very much smaller proportion of its heat dissipates through radiation and like causes than from a smaller body, just as a thin red-hot wire cools in the air much faster than a thick bar equally hot.
For days in succession when it storms along the Southern California coasts and dense rain clouds blow landwards to the mountains, leaving snow or rain on their summits, it has been observed that within a few miles beyond the ridge the contact of the desert air dissipates the remaining moisture of the clouds into light misty masses, like a steam escape in cold air.
Unlike alcohol based perfume which quickly dissipates once it's applied to the skin, oil settles and absorbs into the skin at a much slower rate.
They are not the first to be recognized, but will slowly release as the fragrance dissipates.
However, if the user can distract himself/herself, the nicotine craving usually dissipates within five minutes.
Among its many tasks, blood transfers body heat to the skin, which then dissipates the heat into the environment.
If this happens, you'll have to wait until some of the chlorine dissipates before you can use the pool again.
It is then taken into a series of coils, where the heat dissipates and the Freon cools into a liquid.
As the heat dissipates, the Freon is drawn into the expansion coil.
Others complain that the gel in the insert dissipates quickly.
Next time you suffer the itch of a mosquito bite, focus on something else and see how quickly the desire to scratch dissipates.