Crossword clues for enlargement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enlargement \En*large"ment\, n.
The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
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A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.
Give enlargement to the swain.
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Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.
An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army.
--Clarendon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "a release from confinement," from enlarge in the secondary Middle English sense "release a prisoner" (mid-15c.) + -ment. Meaning "act of increasing in size" is from 1560s. Photographic sense "picture of a larger size than the negative from which it was made" is from 1866.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of making something larger. 2 (context figuratively English) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation. 3 An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
WordNet
n. the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope [syn: expansion] [ant: contraction]
a discussion that provides additional information [syn: expansion, elaboration]
a photographic print that has been enlarged [syn: blowup, magnification]
Wikipedia
Enlargement may refer to:
- the growth in membership of political entities:
- Enlargement of the European Union is the political process for integrating countries into the European Union.
- Enlargement of the African Union
- Enlargement of the Arab League
- Enlargement of the United Nations
- Enlargement of NATO
- Enlargement of Switzerland
- Enlargement of the European Space Agency
- in other contexts:
- In mathematics, an enlargement is a uniform scaling, an example of a Homothetic transformation that increases distances, areas and volumes.
- Enlargement (in fiction) is a theme in fiction, especially in science fiction and fantasy.
- An enlargement is a photographic print that is larger than the negative it is printed from, through the use of an enlarger.
- Penis enlargement.
Usage examples of "enlargement".
Gelatinous or interacinous adenoma, which consists in an enlargement of the acini by an accumulation of colloid material, and an increase in the interacinous tissue by a growth of round cells.
We mention this case only because it is one among a very large number who have consulted us supposing that they were suffering from enlargement of the testicles, cancer, or some other morbid growth within the scrotum, when a slight examination has shown the affection to be hydrocele, a disease which is speedily cured by tapping, with a little after treatment.
Frequent use of the catheter, without any treatment to prevent the further enlargement of the diseased gland, or to reduce its size, permits the part to go on enlarging, and, besides, the constant use of the catheter irritates the prostatic portion of the urethra, causing thickening of the lining membrane, and sooner or later a more or less complete organic stricture of this canal, depending upon thickening of the lining mucous membrane, as well as upon the encroachment of the gland itself upon this canal.
When the spermatic veins are over-distended to such an extent that their tonicity is impaired, they gradually lose their capacity for transmitting the blood, and a slowly increasing enlargement and tortuously of veins results.
Then in the same article it was written that usually mydriasis, or enlargement, of the pupils was seen.
Juvenile faces, mouths open, tongues licking stained lips, teeth clamping on narcos, eyes glittering through enlargement lenses.
The use of pessaries, excessive sexual indulgence, injuries occasioned by giving birth to children, congestions, enlargements and displacements, may all operate as causes.
It is readily distinguished under the form of a soft, doughy, compressible, knotty, and unequal enlargement of the veins, and a tumid condition of the adjacent parts.
He describes the enlargement of the veins that follows, the actual varicosities, and the dusky or livid redness of the parts which seem to be soft, but are really very hard.
For my part, I shall take all immaginable care that the Fathers who preach the Holy Gospell to those Indians over whom I have power bee not in the least ill treated, and upon that very accompt have sent for one of each nation to come to me, and then those beastly crimes you reproove shall be checked severely, and all my endevours used to surpress their filthy drunkennesse, disorders, debauches, warring, and quarrels, and whatsoever doth obstruct the growth and enlargement of the Christian faith amongst those people.
Aetius said that the Egyptians practiced amputation of the clitoris, so that enlargement of this organ must have been a common vice of conformation along the Nile.
Enlargement of the uterus, the womb, or displacements of that organ, as prolapsus, or anteversion, and all capable of producing symptoms of bladder disease.
LORD to strengthen us by His HOLY SPIRIT for this end, and to bless our desires and proceedings with such success, as may be deliverance and safety to His people, and encouragement to other Christian churches, groaning under, or in danger of, the yoke of antichristian tyranny, to join in the same or like association and covenant, to the glory of GOD, the enlargement of the kingdom of JESUS CHRIST, and the peace and tranquility of Christian kingdoms and commonwealths.
Microscopically the enlargement would seem to be due rather to hyperplasia than to hypertrophy.
Dickie and Marge began to talk about the enlargement of some restaurant down on the beach.