Bloat

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloat \Bloat\ (bl[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bloated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Bloating}.] [Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr
     soft, wet, Sw. bl["o]t soft, bl["o]ta to soak; akin to G.
     bloss bare, and AS. ble['a]t wretched; or perh. fr. root of
     Eng. 5th blow. Cf. {Blote}.]
     1. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling


        of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular
        tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied
        with softness.
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     2. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloat \Bloat\, v. i.
     To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular
     tissue; to puff out; to swell. --Arbuthnot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloat \Bloat\, a.
     Bloated. [R.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloat \Bloat\, n.
     A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
     [Slang]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloat \Bloat\, v. t.
     To dry (herrings) in smoke. See {Blote}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bloat
       n : swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic
           animals caused by excessive gas
       v 1: become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's
            stomach was bloated"
       2: make bloated or swollen; "Hunger bloated the child's belly"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloat":
     accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify,
     appreciate, augment, balloon, bloatedness, bloating, blotter,
     blow up, blowing up, boom, boozehound, boozer, breaking point,
     breed, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo,
     develop, diastole, dilatation, dilate, dilation, distend,
     distension, dropsy, drunk, edema, enlarge, expand, extend,
     extreme tension, fill out, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gain,
     gain strength, gassiness, get ahead, go up, greaten, grow, guzzler,
     hike, hike up, huff, increase, inebriate, inflate, inflation,
     intensify, intumescence, lush, magnify, meteorism, mount, multiply,
     overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension,
     overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, proliferate, puff,
     puff up, puffiness, puffing, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, rise,
     run up, shoot up, snapping point, snowball, soak, sot, sponge,
     spread, strain, straining, strengthen, stretch, stretching,
     sufflate, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tension, tippler,
     tumefaction, tumefy, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence,
     turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, wax, widen,
     windiness
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  bloat
       
          {software bloat}