Dilatability(n.) The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility.
Dilatable(a.) Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
Dilatation(n.) Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
Dilatation(n.) The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
Dilatation(n.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
Dilatator(n.) A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.
Dilate(a.) Extensive; expanded.
Dilate(v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Dilate(v. i.) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
Dilate(v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
Dilate(v. t.) To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
Dilated(a.) Expanded; enlarged.
Dilated(a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
Dilated(a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
Dilated(imp. & p. p.) of Dilate
Dilatedly(adv.) In a dilated manner.
Dilater(n.) One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
Dilating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilate
Dilation(n.) Delay.
Dilation(n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
Dilative(a.) Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
Dilator(n.) One who, or that which, widens or expands.
Dilator(n.) A muscle that dilates any part.
Dilator(n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.
Words within dilations