different between dissipation vs dissipate

English

Etymology

From Middle French dissipation, from Late Latin dissipatioMorphologically dissipate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s??pe???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dissipation (countable and uncountable, plural dissipations)

1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     the famous dissipation of mankind

2. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
   • 18th century, Patrick Henry in a parliamentary debate

     to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter VIII:

     He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
   • 1733 May 28, letter from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift:

     Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations.

4. (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.

Translations

French

Etymology

From dissiper +? -tion

Pronunciation

Noun

dissipation f (plural dissipations)

1. clearing, dissipation, disappearance

Further reading

• “dissipation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, also written dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supare (“to throw”), also in comp. insipare (“to throw into”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?pe?t/

Verb

dissipate (third-person singular simple present dissipates, present participle dissipating, simple past and past participle dissipated)

1. (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
   • August 1773, James Cook, journal entry

     I soon dissipated his fears.

   • 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table

     The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.

2. (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.

   • 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited

     So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
3. (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
4. (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
5. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To be dissolute in conduct.

Related terms

• dissipation

Translations

Further reading

• dissipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dissipate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “dissipate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Italian

Verb

dissipate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dissipare
2. second-person plural imperative of dissipare
3. feminine plural of dissipato

Latin

Verb

dissip?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dissip?