Word Meanings - DILATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

word as latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear ; or fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differre to separate (see Delay, Tolerate, 1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates

Additional info about word: DILATE

word as latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear ; or fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differre to separate (see Delay, Tolerate, 1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat. 2. To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak. Syn. -- To expand; swell; distend; enlarge; spread out; amplify; expatiate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DILATE)

• Amplify
• Enrich
• enlarge
• increase
• augment
• multiply
• dilate
• develop
• swell
• expatiate
• expand
• discuss
• unfold
• extend
• Comment Note
• observe
• interpret
• illustrate
• expound
• explain
• criticise
• Enlarge
• broaden
• stretch out
• stretch
• Expand
• Swell
• spread
• open
• diffuse
• amplify
• Expatiate

Related words: (words related to DILATE)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• AUGMENTATION
  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. 2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. 3. The thing
• UNFOLD
  1. To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth. Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns. Herbert. 2. To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.