dilate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To enlarge; to make bigger. transitive
    — The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.
  2. To delay, defer. obsolete,transitive
    — Without more time delated.
  3. To become wider or larger; to expand. intransitive
    — His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
  4. To prolong, lengthen. obsolete,transitive
    — A […] way to dilate a remembrance beyond the banks of Forgetfulness.
  5. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". ambitransitive
    — Do me the favour to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them and thee till now.
  6. To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina). ambitransitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Carried in different ways, spread, abroad, dispersed, published. archaic,obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

dilates present,singular,third-person dilating participle,present dilated participle,past dilated past delate alternative dilates present,singular,third-person dilating participle,present dilated participle,past dilated past delate alternative deleate alternative dylate alternative more dilate comparative most dilate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
bronchodilate dilatability dilatable dilatancy dilatative dilatingly dilation dilative dilatometer dilatometry dilaton nondilating postdilate predilate redilate undilating vasodilate
相关词
dilute

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1393, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English dilaten, from Old French dilater, from Latin dīlātō (“to spread out”), from dī- + lātus (“wide”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of dilatate.
词源 2
First attested in 1399, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English dilaten (“to delay, tarry”), borrowed from Latin dīlātus, perfect passive participle of Latin dīfferō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)). If so, Doublet of defer and differ; see also infer, relate and refer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prefer and prelate among others. Alternatively, from Latin dīlātō, see Etymology 1.
词源 3
First attested in 1471, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin dīlātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 2 for more.
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