Crossword clues for dilate
dilate
- Make wider
- Make larger
- End of UNICEF's URL
- Become wider
- Prepare pupils for an exam?
- Widen (pupils)
- Comment at length
- Cause to expand, as pupils
- Grow wider
- Broaden, as a pupil
- Become wider, as pupils
- What pupils do in the dark
- What eyes' pupils do in the dark
- Pupils do it in the dark
- Help grow, as pupils
- Get larger, as the pupil of an eye
- Expand the pupils
- Become larger, as a pupil
- Enlarge upon
- Swell
- Prepare pupils for examination
- Get wider
- Widen, as a pupil
- Spread out
- Widen, as pupils
- Grow, as a pupil
- Open wider, as a pupil
- Expand, as pupils
- Expand pupils
- Get bigger Detective Inspector in front of deceased
- Make wider or larger
- Stretch to live long, they say
- Spread for which I’d turned up behind schedule
- Senior copper and others rejected spread
- Fish brought back recently get spread out
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dilate \Di*late"\, v. i.
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To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
--Addison. -
To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
But still on their ancient joys dilate.
--Crabbe.
Dilate \Di*late"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dilating.] [L. dilatare; either fr. di- = dis- + latus wide, not the same word as latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear (see Latitude); or fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differre to separate (see Delay, Tolerate, Differ, and cf. Dilatory): cf. F. dilater.]
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.
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To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [R.]
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.
Dilate \Di*late"\, a.
Extensive; expanded. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To enlarge; to make bigger. 2 (context intransitive English) To become wider or larger; to expand. 3 (context ambitransitive English) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
WordNet
v. become wider; "His pupils were dilated" [syn: distend]
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound] [ant: abridge]
Wikipedia
Dilate is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1996. Dilate is her highest-selling and most critically acclaimed record, with U.S. sales of over 480,000 units according to SoundScan. In 2011, Slant Magazine placed the album at #67 on its list of "The 100 Best Albums of 1990s".
Dilate is the fifth album by Bardo Pond. It was released on April 24, 2001 on Matador Records.
Dilate was an ambient solo project begun in 1996 by keyboard player Victor Wulf.
Dilate is the third studio album by English electronic band Vessels. It was released in March 2015 under Bias Records.
Usage examples of "dilate".
She then began to dilate on the marvellous properties of the balm, on its probable success in a town like London, and on the benefits which would accrue to myself, for of course I should share in the profits.
Moffat looked into the dilated eyes a full second before he pulled himself loose.
Another pressure door dilated, and a big balding middle-aged man stepped out, with small alert eyes on either side of a long sharp nose.
Presently, his door dilated and Tammy appeared, a smirk on her face, casually holding a slave-remote in place of the stinger.
At the thought that her cousin could believe her guilty of such treachery, her grave eyes dilated, and fixed themselves on the flaming countenance of Faith.
Lois, as if they feared she would vanish from before their very eyes: she, white, trembling, standing quite still in the tight grasp of strange, fierce men, her dilated eyes only wandering a little now and then in search of some pitiful face---some pitiful face that, among all those hundreds, was not to be found.
If any heart could have been touched in that cruel multitude, they would have felt some compassion for the sweet young face of the English girl, trying so meekly to do all that she was ordered, her face quite white, yet so full of sad gentleness, her grey eyes, a little dilated by the very solemnity of her position, fixed with the intent look of innocent maidenhood on the stem face of justice Hathorn.
These tumors or dilated blood vessels of the rectum are called hemorrhoids or piles.
In September the os dilated until the first and second fingers could be passed directly to the head.
The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.
When summoned, the doctor found that she had severe lumbar pains, and that the os was dilated to the size of a half-dollar.
The cervix was only slightly dilated, and, as no pains were felt, it was agreed to wait.
The pupils were dilated, there were dimness of vision, confusion of thought, and extreme prostration.
The cavities of the heart were dilated, the walls thin and in advanced stage of fatty degeneration.
Two fistulae were found in the right loin, and were laid open into one canal, which, after partial resection of the 12th rib, was dilated and traced inward and upward, and found to be in connection with the stomach.