different between bulge vs dilation

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?ld?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?ld?/, /b?ld?/

Etymology

From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge. See also budget.

Noun

bulge (plural bulges)

1. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
2. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
3. (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
4. (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
5. (figuratively) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
   • 1930, Stanford University, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute (volume 7, page 204)

     A second bulge in prices occurred during September 30 — October 9. The rise of prices up to October 3 was in part apparently a technical adjustment of the markets, a reaction to the preceding decline.

Derived terms

• cockbulge
• manbulge

Translations

See also

• bulge bracket

Verb

bulge (third-person singular simple present bulges, present participle bulging, simple past and past participle bulged)

1. (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).

   The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.

   He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
2. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
   • 1739, William Broome, “The Battle of the Gods and Titans” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Henry Lintot, p. 253,^[2]

     Fatal to Man! at once all Ocean roars,

     And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

Derived terms

• abulge

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bugle

English

Etymology

From dilate +? -ion, late 16th c.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /da??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dilation (countable and uncountable, plural dilations)

1. The act of dilating.
2. State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.

   Synonyms: expansion, dilatation

3. (obsolete) Delay.

   Synonyms: cunctation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay

   • The wise queen, however she might seem to have a fair opportunity offered to her suit, finds it not good to apprehend it too suddenly; as desiring by this small dilation to prepare the ear and heart of the king for so important a request

4. (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ?) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.

Translations

Anagrams

• dial into, dilatino, laid into

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?l?ti?.

Noun

dilation f (oblique plural dilations, nominative singular dilation, nominative plural dilations)

1. dissemination; spreading (of rumors, stories, etc.)