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adj
suffix
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
verb
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- the act of expanding something in apparent size
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- making to seem more important than it really is
- the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- Amplification.
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
verb
- enlarge or increase
- grow or intensify
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
verb
- enlarge with a reamer
- remove by making a hole or by boring
- squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
- (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
- (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- (slang) To yell at or berate.
noun
- a large quantity of written matter
- a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
- (chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
noun
- the state of being enlarged
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- a discussion that provides additional information
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
adj
- Able to be expanded.
- able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
- Comprehensive in scope or extent.
- Talkative and sociable.
- (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity.
- of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
- friendly and open and willing to talk
- marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
verb
- make larger
- become larger or bigger
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- make large
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
- become wider
- (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
- (ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
- (medicine, ambitransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
verb
- (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
- (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
- (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- (intransitive) To breathe heavily.
- inhale recreational drugs
- blow hard and loudly
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable, bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
- (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
- abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
noun
- Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
- (astronomy) The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.
- An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
- An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
adj
- Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.
- (computing, logistics, business) Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.
- (manufacturing, of an engineering drawing or its features) Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
- Capable of being climbed.
- capable of being scaled; possible to scale
noun
verb
verb
- (by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- (figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- polish and make shiny
noun
- (uncountable) The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.
- A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
- A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
- the property of being smooth and shiny
verb
- make larger or distend
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
verb
- expand abnormally
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
noun
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
adj
adv
noun
- act of expanding by lengthening or widening
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- The act by which something is stretched.
- A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
adj
verb
verb
- make wider
- become broader or wider or more extensive
- make (clothes) larger
- extend in scope or range or area
- (transitive) To make wide or wider.
- (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
- (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
adj
noun
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
verb
- enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
- bolster or strengthen
- change the use of and make available or usable
- form or accumulate steadily
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
- To close up by building.
- (card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To strengthen.
- To erect; to construct.
- (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.
noun
adj
noun
verb
verb
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- grow vigorously
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
noun
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
verb
noun
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A substitution.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
verb
- (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To walk with soft steps.
- (intransitive) To travel on foot.
- (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
- (transitive) To stuff.
- (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- line or stuff with soft material
- add padding to
- add details to
intj
noun
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
- Ellipsis of mouse pad.
- (British, dialectal) A toad.
- (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.
- Ellipsis of keypad.
- (slang) a tablet PC
- (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- (British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end; a "trip cord".
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- (British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- (US, slang) A bed.
- (UK, slang) A prison cell.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- (music) A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
- a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort
- a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
- temporary living quarters
- the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
- a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
- a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
verb
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- the act of expanding something in apparent size
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- making to seem more important than it really is
- the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- Amplification.
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
noun
- the state of being enlarged
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- a discussion that provides additional information
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
noun
- Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
- (astronomy) The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.
- An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
- An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
noun
verb
noun
- act of expanding by lengthening or widening
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- The act by which something is stretched.
- A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
adj
verb
noun
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A substitution.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
verb
- expand abnormally
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
noun
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
adj
adv
verb
- enlarge or increase
- grow or intensify
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
verb
- enlarge with a reamer
- remove by making a hole or by boring
- squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
- (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
- (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- (slang) To yell at or berate.
noun
- a large quantity of written matter
- a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
- (chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
verb
- make larger
- become larger or bigger
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- make large
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
- become wider
- (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
- (ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
- (medicine, ambitransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
verb
- (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
- (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
- (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- (intransitive) To breathe heavily.
- inhale recreational drugs
- blow hard and loudly
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable, bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
- (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
- abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
verb
- (by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- (figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- polish and make shiny
noun
- (uncountable) The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.
- A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
- A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
- the property of being smooth and shiny
verb
- make larger or distend
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
verb
- expand abnormally
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
noun
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
adj
adv
verb
- make wider
- become broader or wider or more extensive
- make (clothes) larger
- extend in scope or range or area
- (transitive) To make wide or wider.
- (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
- (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
adj
noun
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
verb
- enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
- bolster or strengthen
- change the use of and make available or usable
- form or accumulate steadily
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
- To close up by building.
- (card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To strengthen.
- To erect; to construct.
- (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.
noun
verb
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- grow vigorously
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
noun
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To walk with soft steps.
- (intransitive) To travel on foot.
- (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
- (transitive) To stuff.
- (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- line or stuff with soft material
- add padding to
- add details to
intj
noun
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
- Ellipsis of mouse pad.
- (British, dialectal) A toad.
- (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.
- Ellipsis of keypad.
- (slang) a tablet PC
- (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- (British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end; a "trip cord".
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- (British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- (US, slang) A bed.
- (UK, slang) A prison cell.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- (music) A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
- a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort
- a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
- temporary living quarters
- the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
- a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
- a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
adj
adj
- Able to be expanded.
- able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
- Comprehensive in scope or extent.
- Talkative and sociable.
- (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity.
- of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
- friendly and open and willing to talk
- marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
adj
- Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.
- (computing, logistics, business) Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.
- (manufacturing, of an engineering drawing or its features) Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
- Capable of being climbed.
- capable of being scaled; possible to scale