Dilation

4 definitions found

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

  Dilation \Di*la"tion\, n. [L. dilatio. See {Dilatory}.]
     Delay. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Dilation \Di*la"tion\, n. [From dilate, v., cf. {Dilatation},
     {Dilator}.]
     The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated;
     expansion; dilatation. --Mrs. Browning.
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           At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. --Tennyson.
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           A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dilation
       n 1: a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular
            topic
       2: the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil
          of the eye" [syn: {dilatation}]

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

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "dilation":
     aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat,
     bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, burlesque,
     carbuncle, caricature, corn, cyst, development, diastole,
     dilatation, distension, dropsy, edema, elaboration, enhancement,
     enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance,
     expansion, expatiation, explication, extravagance, extreme,
     flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness,
     grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism,
     inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, lump, magnification,
     meteorism, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement,
     pimple, pock, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffiness,
     puffing, puffing up, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst,
     sensationalism, stretching, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling,
     swollenness, tall talk, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence,
     tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity,
     turgidness, tympanism, tympany, unfolding, wen, windiness,
     working-out