different between dilate vs fatten

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)

1. (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.

2. (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.

   Antonym: contract

3. (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.

4. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dilute

Anagrams

• atelid, de-tail, detail, dietal, laited, tailed

French

Verb

dilate

1. inflection of dilater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• déliât, détail, ladite

Latin

Participle

d?l?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?l?tus

Portuguese

Verb

dilate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dilatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dilatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dilatar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dilatar

Spanish

Verb

dilate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dilatar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dilatar.

English

Etymology

From fat +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæt?n/

Verb

fatten (third-person singular simple present fattens, present participle fattening, simple past and past participle fattened)

1. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
   • 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 6, Chapter 25, p. 82,^[1]

     And if the mat[t]er be too little, the vertue of digestion fayleth, and the bodye is dryed, and if the matter and meate be moderate, the meats is well digested, and the bodye fattened, the heart comforted, kinde heate made more, the humors made temperate, & wit made cleere:

   • 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010, Part 1, Chapter 4,^[2]

     In that classroom full of oily potato-chip-fattened adolescents, she was everyone’s ideal of translucent perfume-advertisement femininity.

2. (intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.

   Synonyms: gain weight, put on weight

   • 1774, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, Dublin: James Williams, Volume 1, Sketch 2, pp. 49-50,^[3]

     The Laplanders, possessing a country where corn will not grow, make bread of the inner bark of trees; and Linneus reports, that swine there fatten on that food […]

   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 3,^[4]

     His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk […]

   • 1955, J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Dell, 1965, Chapter 6, p. 43,^[5]

     Mushrooms fatten in the warm September rain.

3. (transitive) To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money).
   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Chapter 33, p. 401,^[6]

     “You horrible old man, you’ve always tried to turn Erik into a slave, to fatten your pocketbook! […] ”

   • 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, 1997, Part 5, p. 241,^[7]

     The news spread, about the bastard caterer who was toying with their religious sentiments, trampling on their beliefs, polluting their beings, all for the sake of fattening his miserable wallet.

   • 2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 177,^[8]

     It was the impotence of the money, and of all the pent-up warlike fancies that had earned it, to do anything but elaborate the wardrobe and fatten the financial portfolios of the owners of Empire Comics that so frustrated and enraged him.

4. (intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, 1930, Part 2, Chapter 22,^[9]

     A broad river of white paper rushed constantly up from the cylinder and leaped into a mangling chaos of machinery whence it emerged a second later, cut, printed, folded and stacked, sliding along a board with a hundred others in a fattening sheaf.
5. (transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.

   Synonym: enrich

   to fatten land

   • 1612, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holie Storie, London: Sa. Macham, Volume 1, Book 4, p. 333,^[10]

     As the riuer of Nilus was to Egypt in steed of heauen to moisten and fatten the earth; so their confidence was more in it then in heauen;

   • 1850, Christina Rossetti, “A Testimony” in Goblin Market and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, 1862, p. 163,^[11]

     The earth is fattened with our dead;

     She swallows more and doth not cease:

     Therefore her wine and oil increase

     And her sheaves are not numberèd;

6. (intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
   • 1700, John Dryden (translator), “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias” in Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 205,^[12]

     These hostile Fields shall fatten with thy Blood.

Derived terms

• fattener
• fattening
• fatten up
• nonfattened
• unfattenable
• unfattened

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

fatten

1. plural of fat