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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
2: the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye" [syn: dilation, dilatation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act or action of dilating ; the state of being dilated ; expansion, dilatation 2. the action of stretching or enlarging an organ or part of the body

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dilation Di*la"tion, n. [L. dilatio. See Dilatory.] Delay. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dilation Di*la"tion, n. [From dilate, v., cf. Dilatation, Dilator.] The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. --Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. --Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. --Dickens.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Modern.) Dilatation, expansion, expanding, swelling, bloating, distension, enlargement, amplification, spreading.

Moby Thesaurus

aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, burlesque, carbuncle, caricature, corn, cyst, development, diastole, dilatation, distension, dropsy, edema, elaboration, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expatiation, explication, extravagance, extreme, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, lump, magnification, meteorism, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pimple, pock, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst, sensationalism, stretching, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, unfolding, wen, windiness, working-out