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Definitions: Enlarged |
EnlargedAdjective1. Expanded in scope; "the enlarged authority of the committee". 2. (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells; "hypertrophied myocardial fibers". 3. As of a photograph; made larger; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details". 4. Larger than normal; "enlarged joints". 5. Enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enlarged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ENCORE | English | Enlarged Compact by Response | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EnlargedSynonyms: blown-up (adj), exaggerated (adj), hypertrophied (adj), magnified (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: atrophied (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind. |
Superiority | Ncreased; (added to); enlarged; (expanded). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) For the experiment to be a success, all of the body parts must be enlarged. (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) | |
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This photomicrograph of cells in tissue culture have enlarged infected cells with a human herpes virus, HHV-6.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ![]() | Inguinal lymph nodes enlarged due to filariasis.Credit: CDC. | |
Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D.Credit: CDC. | The lungs are enlarged, heavy, uniformly firm, and yellow-white in color. 70% of all pregnant women with untreated primary syphilis may transmit the infection to their fetuses.Credit: CDC. | ||
Plasmodium falciparum rings have delicate cytoplasm and 1 or 2 small chromatin dots. Infected RBCs are not enlarged, and RBCs with multiple rings are often found in P. falciparum.Credit: CDC. | As the parasite increases in size, the ring morphology disappears, and becomes what is referred to as a mature trophozoite. The trophozoite of P. vivax is ameboid in shape, and the enlarged infected erythrocyte contains numerous Schuffner's dots.Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Hart-Miller Island, once two islands that nearly eroded into extinction, are now one. They are being regenerated and enlarged with dredge spoils from Baltimore Harbor.Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | A culvert, at Quivett Creek, that needs to be enlarged to enhance water flow.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | An overview of the marsh and the culvert that restricts water from flowing from Quivett Creek into the marsh. The preferred restoration choice was to create an open channel between the two sections of marsh but the homes in the foreground would have been impacted. Instead the culverts were enlarged. Part of the project includes raising the abandoned roadway surface to provide flood control.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Among the most famous of early satellite weather photographs. This image showed a "square" cloud close to the Oklahoma-Texas border. Within hours this cloud enlarged and spread northward bringing hailstones and tornadoes to central Oklahoma. A TIROS I image.Credit: NOAA in Space. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ramsey | Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. |
Sir Edwin Arnold | Use your gift faithfully and they shall be enlarged. Practice what you know, and you shall attain higher knowledge. |
William Hazlitt | Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had joined them and enlarged the group. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life and sublunary happiness could easily furnish me with. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In most cases, only one of the glands is enlarged. (references) | |
These lesions consist of abnormally enlarged veins. (references) | ||
With time, however, the enlarged heart gradually weakens. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | If "green" housing compliance follows the government's expectations, this niche will be greatly enlarged and capable companies will stand to benefit substantially. (references) |
Ghana | In 1951, a constitution was promulgated that called for a greatly enlarged legislature composed principally of members elected by popular vote directly or indirectly. (references) | |
Mauritius | Construction of an enlarged cargo warehousing/logistics area and an aircraft maintenance hangar as well as an airport hotel and a commercial complex are in the pipeline. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | It also noted that 12 of the existing 43 prisons are being enlarged and 19 more prisons are under construction. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | The Khartoum State government plans to upgrade conditions in some camps, requiring the movement of populations to other areas so that roads may be built or enlarged and services established. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | For a more enlarged view of the public finances, with a view of the measures pursued by the Treasury Department previous to the resignation of the late Secretary, I transmit an extract from the last report of that officer. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Local jealousies are rapidly yielding to more generous, enlarged, and enlightened views of national policy. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | In inviting the attention of Congress to the subject of internal improvements upon a view thus enlarged it is not my desire to recommend the equipment of an expedition for circumnavigating the globe for purposes of scientific research and inquiry. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | On the contrary, it promises, by the security it will afford, to facilitate commercial transactions and give rise to an enlarged intercourse among the people of different nations, which can not but have a happy effect. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | As our boundaries have been enlarged and our agricultural population has been spread over a large surface, our federative system has acquired additional strength and security. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | We in our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and our children's children. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The Beauty of America For over three centuries the beauty of America has sustained our spirit and has enlarged our vision. |
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| "Enlarged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.30% of the time. "Enlarged" is used about 593 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.3% | 275 | 17,685 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 32.49% | 193 | 22,089 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20.03% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.18% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 593 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "enlarged". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Japhet | N/A | Biblical | Enlarged |
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Expressions using "enlarged": be enlarged ♦ enlarged access policy ♦ enlarged display ♦ enlarged edition ♦ enlarged heart ♦ exaggerated magnified enlarged ♦ Thyroid gland enlarged. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "enlarged": much-enlarged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
enlarged heart | 428 |
enlarged prostate | 393 |
enlarged uterus | 232 |
enlarged spleen | 173 |
enlarged liver | 150 |
enlarged thyroid | 137 |
enlarged clitoris | 117 |
enlarged lymph node | 101 |
enlarged ovary | 77 |
enlarged prostrate | 64 |
enlarged testicle | 43 |
enlarged prostate symptom | 38 |
enlarged pore | 33 |
enlarged kidney | 33 |
enlarged prostate treatment | 31 |
enlarged clit | 31 |
enlarged tonsils | 29 |
aorta enlarged | 28 |
enlarged spleen symptom | 25 |
enlarged penis | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "enlarged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i zmadhuar (exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, outre, overdone, romantic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увеличен (megascopic, raised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扩大 (Enlarge, Enlargement, Enlarging, Reamed, Reaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvìtšený (capitate), zbytnìlý, rozšířený (current, dilatable, disseminated, effuse, expanded, wide, widespread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Nieuwe accenten in een groter Europa (New accents in an enlarged EU, New horizons within a larger Europe: shifting the emphasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laajentunut (dilated, distended). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agrandies, agrandie, agrandi, agrandîmes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vergrößerte (amplified, augmented, heightened), vergrößert (amplifies, augmented, augments, Enhanced, enlarges, heightens, magnified, magnifies), erweiterte (advanced, amplified, dilated, parleyed, reamed, widened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγεθυμένος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מו'"ל (increased, magnified), מורחב (expanded, extended, widened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyított (on a large scale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ingrandito (augments, enhanced, enlarges, heightens, magnifies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 肥大した (fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひ いした (fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 확대하" (magnified). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooadit (amplified, artificial, artificial untrue, augmented, exaggerated), bolgit (blistered, bloated, dilated, filled, parched), attit (bulging, distended, swollen, varicose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enlargeday generoso (big heart, boon, bounteous, chivalrous, flush, generous, large, large handed, large minded, large-hearted, lavish, magnate, open-hearted, selfless, soft-hearted, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, warm-hearted, whole-souled), dilatado (diffuse, distent, far flung, megatherium, swollen), avultar (accrue, expandable, grow, increase output), aumentado (extended, megascopic, raised), ampliado (megascopic), alargado (extended). (various references) увеличенный (megascopic). (various references) povećan. (various references) engrandecido. (various references) звільнений (acquitted, disengaged, emancipated, free, liberated, released), збільшений (accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, augmented, scaled-up). (various references) ymehangu (become enlarged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | auctum, auctus, auctusque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | To stoma hmwn anewgen proV umaV korinqioi h kardia hmwn peplatuntai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Os nostrum patet ad vos o Corinthii cor nostrum dilatatum est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A! ye Corynthies, oure mouth is open to you, oure herte is alargid; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | O ye Corinthyans oure mouth is open vnto you. Oure herte is made large: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide. |
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| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 11 |
| Bulgarian | И тъй, възлюбени, като имаме тия обещания, нека очистим себе си от всяка плътска и духовна нечистота, като се усъвършенствуваме в светост със страх от Бога. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Sa walay pagpanagana ang among baba nagabungat nganha kaninyo, O mga Korintohanon; ang among kasingkasing binuksan ug daku alang kaninyo. |
| Chinese | " 林 多 人 " 、 我 們 向 們 、 口 是 張 開 的 、 心 是 寬 宏 的 。 |
| Croatian | Usta su naša otvorena vama, Korinæani, srce naše rašireno. |
| Danish | Vor Mund er opladt over for eder, Korinthiere! vort Hjerte er udvidet. |
| Dutch | Onze mond is opengedaan tegen u, o Korinthiers, ons hart is uitgebreid. |
| Finnish | Suumme on auennut puhumaan teille, korinttolaiset, sydämemme on avartunut. |
| French | Notre bouche s`est ouverte pour vous, Corinthiens, notre coeur s`est élargi. |
| German | O ihr Korinther! unser Mund hat sich zu euch aufgetan, unser Herz ist weit. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Zanmi m' yo, moun Korent, mwen pale kare avè nou, mwen louvri tout kè m' ban nou. |
| Hungarian | A mi szánk megnyílt ti néktek, korinthusiak, a mi szívünk kitárult. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saudara-saudara yang tercinta di Korintus! Kami sudah berterus terang kepadamu. Semua isi hati kami sudah kami utarakan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hai orang Korintus, mulut kami terbuka kepada kamu, dan hati kami lapang. |
| Italian | La nostra bocca vi ha parlato francamente, Corinzi, e il nostro cuore si è tutto aperto per voi. |
| Korean | 린 도 인 " 이 여 ! 너 희 를 향 하 여 우 리 의 입 이 열 리 우 리 의 마 음 이 " 었 으 니 |
| Latvian | Korintieði, mçs jums atklâti sakâm, mûsu sirds ir plaði atvçrt. |
| Maori | ¶ Tuwhera tonu o matou mangai ki a koutou, e nga Koriniti, kua nui to matou ngakau. |
| Norwegian | Vår munn er oplatt mot eder, I korintiere, vårt hjerte har utvidet sig. |
| Portuguese | ç coríntios, a nossa boca está aberta para vós, o nosso coração está dilatado! |
| Rumanian | Am dat drumul gurii fayq de voi, Corintenilor! Ni s`a lqrgit inima. |
| Russian | хУФБ ОБЫЙ ПФЧЕТУФЩ Л ЧБН, лПТЙОЖСОЕ, УЕТ""Е ОБЫЕ ТБУЫЙТЕОП. |
| Shuar | ¶ Yatsurtiram, Kurintiunam pujarmena nu, Ashí paant ujakchamkajrum. Ti aneajrumna nu nékarme. |
| Spanish | Nuestra boca ha sido franca con vosotros, oh corintios; nuestro corazón está abierto. |
| Swahili | Ndugu Wakorintho, tumezungumza nanyi kwa unyofu; mioyo yetu iko wazi kabisa. |
| Swedish | Vi hava nu upplåtit vår mun och talat öppet till eder, I korintier. Vårt hjärta har vidgat sig för eder. |
| Thai | ท่านชาวโครินธ์ เราพู"กับท่านอย่างไม่ปิ"บังเลย และใจของเราก็เปิ"รับท่าน |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Уста наші відкрились до вас, коринтяни, серце наше розширене! |
| Uma | ¶ Ompi' -ku to Korintus! Kipolonto' -mi lolita-kai mpololitai-koi, uma ria to kiwunii'. Nihilo moto-mi ahi' -kai hi koi'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "enlarged": unenlarged. (additional references) | |
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"Enlarged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: englarged, Enlarg, inlarge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enlarged" (pronounced enlÄ"rjd or unlÄ"rjd) |
| 4 | -Ä" r j d | barged, charged, discharged, mischarged, overcharged, recharged, supercharged. |
| 3 | -r j d | disgorged, forged, turbocharged. |
| 4 | -Ä" r j d | barged, charged, discharged, mischarged, overcharged, recharged, supercharged. |
| 3 | -r j d | disgorged, forged, turbocharged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: angeled, angered, dangler, derange, enlarge, enraged, general, gleaned, gleaner, gnarled, grandee, grenade, lagered, learned, regaled. | |
-2 letters: agreed, aneled, angled, angler, argled, danger, dangle, darnel, dealer, dragee, earned, endear, enrage, galere, gander, garden, geared, gelder, gender, genera, glared, lagend, lander, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, ledger, legend, lender, neared, ranged, redleg, regale, regnal, relend. | |
-3 letters: agene, aglee, agree, alder, anele, angel, anger, angle, argle, denar, eager, eagle, eagre, eared, edger, eland, elder, ender, genre, glade, gland, glare, glean, glede, gleed, gnarl, grade, grand, greed, green, laden, lader, lager, laree, large, learn, ledge, leger, naled, raged, ragee, ranee, range, redan, regal, regna, renal. | |
-4 letters: aged, agee, ager, alee, dale, dang, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, deer, dele, dene, dere, drag, dree, dreg, earl, earn, edge, egad, egal, eger, elan, erne, gaed, gaen, gale, gane, gear, geed, geld, gene, glad, gled, glee, glen, gnar, grad, gran, gree, lade, land, lane, lang, lard, lead, lean, lear, leer, lend, nard, near, need, nerd, rage, rale, rand, rang, read, real, rede, reed, reel, rend. | |
-5 letters: age, ale, and, ane, are, dag, dal, dee, del, den, ear, eel, eld, end, eng, era, ere, erg, ern, gad, gae, gal, gan, gar, ged, gee, gel, gen, lad, lag, lar, lea, led, lee, leg, nae, nag, nee, rad, rag, ran, red, ree, reg. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: engrailed, glandered, legendary, realigned. | |
+2 letters: embrangled, goaltender, malingered, repleading, ringleader, underglaze, unenlarged. | |
+3 letters: calendering, endearingly, engarlanded, frankpledge, freeloading, generalised, generalized, goaltenders, greenmailed, lavendering, legendarily, legerdemain, ringleaders, sloganeered, underglazes, unregulated. | |
+4 letters: cheerleading, decelerating, decreasingly, degenerately, degringolade, deliberating, deregulating, deregulation, doppelganger, federalizing, frankpledges, glycerinated, legerdemains, nonregulated, outgeneraled, overpedaling, rechallenged, regionalized, unbridgeable. | |
+5 letters: candlelighter, conglomerated, credentialing, darlingnesses, degringolades, deprecatingly, deregulations, doppelgangers, gelandesprung, gradualnesses, interpleading, laggardnesses, nearsightedly, nondegradable, overpedalling, regardfulness, semilegendary, wrongheadedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 6C 61 72 67 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. .-.. .- .-. --. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01101100 01100001 01110010 01100111 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n l a r g e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 006C 0061 0072 0067 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3980786784737170 |
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