dilate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To enlarge; to make bigger.

   “The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.”

2. fiil To become wider or larger; to expand.

   “His heart dilates and glories in his strength.”

3. fiil To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".

   “Do me the favour to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them and thee till now.”

4. fiil To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).

   “In very tight and obstinate stricture I sometimes dilate every day, but as soon as it has been stretched up to 23 or 24, I dilate every other day, or at greater intervals, keeping the instrument in place several minutes.”

5. fiil To delay, defer.

   “Without more time delated.”

6. fiil To prolong, lengthen.

   “A […] way to dilate a remembrance beyond the banks of Forgetfulness.”

7. sıfat Carried in different ways, spread, abroad, dispersed, published.

   “Returne the lords this voyce, we aré their creature : And it is fit, a good, and honeſt prince, Whom they, out of their bounty, haue inſtucted With ſo dilate, and abſolute a power, Should owe the office of it, to their ſeruice ; And good of all, and euery citizen.”