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Definition of dilate in English: dilateverb dɪˈleɪtdʌɪˈleɪt 1Make or become wider, larger, or more open. no object her eyes dilated with horror with object the woman dilated her nostrils Example sentencesExamples - These drugs can slow the force of contraction of the heart and dilate the coronary arteries, thus reducing the demand for oxygen and increasing supply to the heart.
- It affects the central nervous system and the heart, dilates blood vessels, and in some people, it can affect heart rhythm.
- The doctors were using the drug to dilate the blood vessels supplying the babies' lungs, in the hope of reducing pulmonary hypertension.
- The length of the first stage of labor, during which the cervix dilates, did not differ between the two groups.
- It works by dilating the blood vessels of the heart to improve blood flow.
- This causes muscles to relax and allows bronchial tubes to dilate, aiding the flow of air to the lungs.
- The allergen causes the release of chemicals within the body which act to make the small arterial blood vessels dilate and to leak fluid from the capillaries into the surrounding tissues.
- It is designed to fit inside the nostril and dilate the nasal valves by means of its elasticity and thus decrease nasal resistance and improve air flow.
- Your eye doctor usually uses special eyedrops to dilate your pupils, opening them wider so he or she can see the back part of your eye.
- Before the operation, eye drops are given to dilate the pupil.
- At the start of the procedure, the doctor dilates the cervix slightly, so that the telescope can be inserted through the cervix towards the inside of the uterus.
- The surgeon uses the urethral dilators and lubricating jelly to dilate the urethra to accommodate the desired sheath size.
- When the small bowel dilates greater than 3 cm it is abnormal.
- It causes the nerves at the back of the throat to signal the blood vessels to dilate - and fast.
- It dilates the blood vessels and allows more blood flow and oxygen to reach the baby's lungs.
- How well this artery dilates indicates how coronary arteries are behaving.
- Laughter appears to cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow.
- These are strips of collagenous seaweed placed in a closed cervix, where they absorb moisture and swell, dilating the cervix and hastening the onset of labor.
- Second-trimester miscarriage often is caused by problems with the uterus (such as an abnormally shaped uterus) or by a weakened cervix that dilates prematurely.
- As they absorb moisture, they swell, gradually dilating the cervix.
Synonyms enlarge, become larger, widen, become wider, expand, distend, swell 2dilate onno object Speak or write at length on (a subject) the faithful could hear the minister dilate on the role religion could play Example sentencesExamples - For example, their work gives him the opportunity to dilate on the weaknesses of the Marxist labour theory of value.
- He was one of the first creative people to dilate on this theme philosophically in his novel, first by questioning, ‘Where was the providence of the simple faith?’
- She is speaking to us from the security of her living room, safe in her culpable life, dilating on the most hopeless of catastrophes.
- He's also dilated on Times Square in a number of brimming, semi-abstracted compositions featuring gaseous streetlamps, geometric signage and emphatic, top-to-bottom cuts of l' heure bleue sky.
- I don't have the space here to, er, dilate on the issue but in my view real women are, alas, a dying breed.
- As he dilates on his eventual permanent return to the Limberlost, she turns away to hide her tears.
- I can't dilate on this without revealing too much about the novel's content - and it's premature for me to do that.
- I'm willing to dilate on this and any other interesting tidbit someone happens to dig up in the text of the Geneva Conventions tomorrow after I get some sleep.
- The first is ‘responsible’ and the second is ‘safety’, and I want to dilate on both of them.
- Several decades later Alexander I in a private letter wrote that ‘For the largest part the peasants of Russia are slaves; I do not need to dilate on the degradation and the misfortunes of such a position.’
- Now, I do not have time to dilate on the way that that fed into the matrix of facts, but suffice to say it was an important matter from the defence point of view.
- There was a time, a mere few hundred years ago, when any astrologer who dilated on the correct message of this chart would have ended up in the Tower!
Synonyms expatiate, expound, expand, enlarge, elaborate, speak at length, write at length, talk in detail
Derivatives adjective dʌɪˈleɪtəb(ə)l The term of ‘basic national interests’ is very dilatable and open to interpretation. Example sentencesExamples - The prostatic urethra is about 3cm long and is the widest and most dilatable part of the male urethra.
- Both of them developed a very tight stricture, which was not dilatable, and so they were treated with excision of the stricture and esophageal anastomosis.
- Any remaining vein narrowing can be opened further with dilatable balloons and stents.
- The invention relates to a dilatable balloon implant, which is configured with a limited permeability to liquid.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French dilater, from Latin dilatare 'spread out', from di- 'apart' + latus 'wide'. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of dilate in US English: dilateverb 1Make or become wider, larger, or more open. no object her eyes dilated with horror with object the woman dilated her nostrils Example sentencesExamples - The doctors were using the drug to dilate the blood vessels supplying the babies' lungs, in the hope of reducing pulmonary hypertension.
- Second-trimester miscarriage often is caused by problems with the uterus (such as an abnormally shaped uterus) or by a weakened cervix that dilates prematurely.
- As they absorb moisture, they swell, gradually dilating the cervix.
- It works by dilating the blood vessels of the heart to improve blood flow.
- Laughter appears to cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow.
- At the start of the procedure, the doctor dilates the cervix slightly, so that the telescope can be inserted through the cervix towards the inside of the uterus.
- It dilates the blood vessels and allows more blood flow and oxygen to reach the baby's lungs.
- It is designed to fit inside the nostril and dilate the nasal valves by means of its elasticity and thus decrease nasal resistance and improve air flow.
- Your eye doctor usually uses special eyedrops to dilate your pupils, opening them wider so he or she can see the back part of your eye.
- The surgeon uses the urethral dilators and lubricating jelly to dilate the urethra to accommodate the desired sheath size.
- How well this artery dilates indicates how coronary arteries are behaving.
- It affects the central nervous system and the heart, dilates blood vessels, and in some people, it can affect heart rhythm.
- Before the operation, eye drops are given to dilate the pupil.
- These are strips of collagenous seaweed placed in a closed cervix, where they absorb moisture and swell, dilating the cervix and hastening the onset of labor.
- This causes muscles to relax and allows bronchial tubes to dilate, aiding the flow of air to the lungs.
- The length of the first stage of labor, during which the cervix dilates, did not differ between the two groups.
- When the small bowel dilates greater than 3 cm it is abnormal.
- The allergen causes the release of chemicals within the body which act to make the small arterial blood vessels dilate and to leak fluid from the capillaries into the surrounding tissues.
- These drugs can slow the force of contraction of the heart and dilate the coronary arteries, thus reducing the demand for oxygen and increasing supply to the heart.
- It causes the nerves at the back of the throat to signal the blood vessels to dilate - and fast.
Synonyms enlarge, become larger, widen, become wider, expand, distend, swell 2dilate onno object Speak or write at length on (a subject). Example sentencesExamples - He's also dilated on Times Square in a number of brimming, semi-abstracted compositions featuring gaseous streetlamps, geometric signage and emphatic, top-to-bottom cuts of l' heure bleue sky.
- There was a time, a mere few hundred years ago, when any astrologer who dilated on the correct message of this chart would have ended up in the Tower!
- Now, I do not have time to dilate on the way that that fed into the matrix of facts, but suffice to say it was an important matter from the defence point of view.
- I can't dilate on this without revealing too much about the novel's content - and it's premature for me to do that.
- For example, their work gives him the opportunity to dilate on the weaknesses of the Marxist labour theory of value.
- Several decades later Alexander I in a private letter wrote that ‘For the largest part the peasants of Russia are slaves; I do not need to dilate on the degradation and the misfortunes of such a position.’
- She is speaking to us from the security of her living room, safe in her culpable life, dilating on the most hopeless of catastrophes.
- He was one of the first creative people to dilate on this theme philosophically in his novel, first by questioning, ‘Where was the providence of the simple faith?’
- The first is ‘responsible’ and the second is ‘safety’, and I want to dilate on both of them.
- I'm willing to dilate on this and any other interesting tidbit someone happens to dig up in the text of the Geneva Conventions tomorrow after I get some sleep.
- As he dilates on his eventual permanent return to the Limberlost, she turns away to hide her tears.
- I don't have the space here to, er, dilate on the issue but in my view real women are, alas, a dying breed.
Synonyms expatiate, expound, expand, enlarge, elaborate, speak at length, write at length, talk in detail
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French dilater, from Latin dilatare ‘spread out’, from di- ‘apart’ + latus ‘wide’. |