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dilate
English
Etymology
From Middle English dilaten, from Old French dilater, from Latin d?l?t? (“I spread out”), from di- (variant of dis-) + l?tus (“wide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da??le?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
dilate (third-person singular simple present dilates, present participle dilating, simple past and past participle dilated)
- (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
- (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
- Antonym: contract
- (transitive, intransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
- 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough
- But still they on their ancient joys dilate.
- 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough
- (medicine, transitive, intransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
- 1896, The Chicago Medical Recorder, page 62:
- An experimenter in New York has recently advocated what he is pleased to call temporary forcible dilatation of the trachea in the treatment of membranous croup, his idea being to introduce into the trachea a dilator and to forcibly dilate, every few hours if need be, and he reports favorable results.
- 1911, Abraham Leo Wolbarst, Gonorrhea in the Male: A Practical Guide to Its Treatment, page 148:
- 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.
- 2010, Kehinde Adeola Ayeni, Feasts of Phantoms, Fisher King Press (?ISBN), page 148:
- He gave her some of the dilators he used to dilate her vagina shortly after the surgery and encouraged her to do it frequently.
- 2012, Wolf Eicher, Götz Kockott, Sexology, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN)
- It is important to realize that a number of these women do not want to have their vaginismus treated but only to achieve pregnancy. […] The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.
- 1896, The Chicago Medical Recorder, page 62:
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- dilute
Anagrams
- atelid, de-tail, detail, dietal, laited, tailed
French
Verb
dilate
- inflection of dilater:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- déliât, détail, ladite
Latin
Participle
d?l?te
- vocative masculine singular of d?l?tus
Portuguese
Verb
dilate
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dilatar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dilatar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dilatar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dilatar
Spanish
Verb
dilate
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dilatar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
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dilatant
English
Adjective
dilatant (comparative more dilatant, superlative most dilatant)
- Tending to dilate, or causing dilation.
- (physics) Exhibiting dilatancy.
Noun
dilatant (plural dilatants)
- A dilator.
- (physics) A substance whose viscosity increases with rate of shear.
Anagrams
- atlantid
Catalan
Verb
dilatant
- present participle of dilatar
French
Verb
dilatant
- present participle of dilater
Latin
Verb
d?l?tant
- third-person plural present active indicative of d?l?t?
Romanian
Etymology
From French dilatant.
Adjective
dilatant m or n (feminine singular dilatant?, masculine plural dilatan?i, feminine and neuter plural dilatante)
- dilatant
Declension
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