Word Meanings - DILATABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to DILATABLE)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - DILATIVE
Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - DILATORILY
With delay; tardily. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - DILATATION
A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. (more info) 1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. "What needeth greater dilatation" Chaucer. 2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - CONTRACTIBLENESS
Contractibility. - EXPANSION
Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes. (more info) 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. 2. That which is expanded; expanse; - OPPOSABLE
1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger. - DILATED
Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak. - DILATION
Delay. Bp. Hall. - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - DILATER
One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges. - UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke. - INCAPABLE
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - OVERCAPABLE
Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - OVERFORCE
Excessive force; violence. - SUBDILATED
Partially dilated.