Word Meanings - DILATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak.

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• LAMINARITE
  A broad-leafed fossil alga.
• LAMINABLE
  Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when
• LAMINARY
  Laminar.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• 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
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• WIDENESS
  1. The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room. "I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift. 2. Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• LAMINABILITY
  The quality or state of being laminable.
• LAMINATING
  Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.
• LAMINA
  The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. Gray. (more info) 1. A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• WIDEN
  To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
• LAMINARIA
  A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.
• ENLARGE
  Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand;
• LAMINATE
  1. To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates. 2. To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.
• LAMINARIAN
  Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
• LAMINATED
  Laminate. Laminated arch , a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.
• INTERLAMINATION
  The state of being interlaminated.
• DELAMINATION
  Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. Note: This process consists of a concentric splitting of the cells of the blastosphere into an outer layer
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• INTERLAMINATED
  Placed between, or containing, laminæ or plates.
• INTERLAMELLAR; INTERLAMINAR
  Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,
• ENWIDEN
  To widen.
• SEPTILATERAL
  Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.