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swelling 音标拼音: [sw'ɛlɪŋ] n. 肿胀,增大 肿胀,增大 swelling n 1: an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [ synonym: { swelling}, { puffiness}, { lump}] 2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; " the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; " the hump of a camel"; " he stood on the rocky prominence"; " the occipital protuberance was well developed"; " the bony excrescence between its horns" [ synonym: { bulge}, { bump}, { hump}, { swelling}, { gibbosity}, { gibbousness}, { jut}, { prominence}, { protuberance}, { protrusion}, { extrusion}, { excrescence}] 3: the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated ( often accompanied by release of water) [ synonym: { intumescence}, { intumescency}, { swelling}] Swell \ Swell\, v. i. [ imp. { Swelled}; p. p. { Swelled} or { Swollen}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Swelling}.] [ AS. swellan; akin to D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella, Sw. sv[ aum] lla.] 1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. [ 1913 Webster] You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly. [ 1913 Webster] Your equal mind yet swells not into state. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. " Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount. [ 1913 Webster] 11. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. [ 1913 Webster] Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Swelling \ Swell" ing\, n. 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. [ 1913 Webster] Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially ( Med.), an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. [ 1913 Webster] The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. -- Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster] 233 Moby Thesaurus words for " swelling": abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, aposteme, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, aureate, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bed sore, bellying, billowing, billowy, blain, bleb, blister, bloat, bloated, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bombastic, boom, boost, bosomy, breaking point, broadening, bubo, buildup, bulbose, bulbous, bulge, bulging, bulla, bump, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, corn, crescendo, crescendoing, crescent, cyst, development, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distended, distension, dropsy, edema, elevation, enlargement, eschar, euphuistic, excrescence, expanding, expansion, extension, extreme tension, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flatulence, flatulency, flatulent, flatus, flood, flowery, fullness, furuncle, furunculus, fustian, gain, gassiness, gassy, gathering, grandiloquent, greatening, growing, growth, gumboil, gush, hemorrhoids, hike, hillocky, hummocky, increase, increasing, increment, incremental, inflated, inflation, intensifying, intensity, intumescence, jump, kibe, leap, lengthening, lesion, loudishness, loudness, lump, magniloquent, meteorism, mounting, mouthy, moutonnee, multiplication, multiplying, node, nodule, on the increase, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pneumatic, pock, polyp, potbellied, pouching, productiveness, proliferating, proliferation, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, raise, rise, rising, rounded, scab, sebaceous cyst, snapping point, snowballing, soft chancre, sonority, sonorousness, sore, spread, spreading, stigma, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, sty, suppuration, surge, surge of sound, swell, swellage, swollen, swollenness, tension, tightening, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumescent, tumid, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgescent, turgid, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, ulcer, ulceration, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, verrucated, verrucose, volume, wale, warty, waxing, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitlow, widening, windiness, windy, wound |
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