swell [v1: Swell, v2: Swelled, v3: Swollen]
Kelime Anlamı :

1. kabarmak.
2. şişmek.
3. müthiş.
4. ölü dalga.
5. iftihar etmek.
6. artma.
7. harika.
8. kabarma.
9. şişkinlik.
10. büyümek.
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Tanımlar :
1. having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished
2. the act of swelling.
3. gradual increase.
4. increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
5. increase in height; elevation; rise.
6. increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
7. increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
8. A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land.
9. A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm.
10. A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
11. A showy, dashing person; a dandy.
12. to grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance
13. to increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force
14. to rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave.
15. to be puffed up or bloated.
16. to be inflated; to belly.
17. to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant
18. to protuberate; to bulge out.
19. to be elated; to rise arrogantly.
20. to grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
21. to become larger in amount.
22. to act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
23. to increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase.
24. to aggravate; to heighten.
25. to raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
26. to augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. to grow in bulk; bulge; dilate or expand; increase in size or extent by addition of any kind; grow in volume, intensity, or force: literally or figuratively, and used in a great variety of applications.
2. to belly, as sails; bulge out, as a cask in the middle; protuberate.
3. to rise in altitude; rise above a given level.
4. to be puffed up with some feeling; show outwardly elation or excitement; hence, to strut; look big: as, to swell with pride, anger, or rage.
5. to rise and gather; well up.
6. to increase the bulk, size, amount, or number of; cause to expand, dilate, or increase.
7. to inflate; puff up; raise to arrogance.
8. to increase gradually the intensity, force, or volume of: as, to swell a tone. see swell, n., 4.
9. the act of swelling; augmentation in bulk; expansion; distention; increase in volume, intensity, number, force, etc.
10. an elevation above a level, especially a gradual and even rise: as, a swell of land.
11. A wave, especially when long and unbroken; collectively, the waves or fluctuations of the sea after a storm, often called ground-swell; billows; a surge: as, a heavy swell.
12. in music: A gradual increase and following decrease in loudness or force; a crescendo combined with a diminuendo. compare messa di voce.
13. the signor ⟩, used to denote the above.
14. A mechanical contrivance in the harpsichord and in both the pipe-organ and the reed-organ by which the loudness of the tones may be varied by opening or shutting the lid or set of blinds of a closed box, case, or chamber within which are the sounding strings, pipes, or vibrators.
15. same as swell-box, swell-keyboard, swell-organ, or swell-pedal. see also organ, 6.
16. in a cannon, an enlargement near the muzzle: it is not present in guns as now made.
17. in a gunstock, the enlarged and thickened part.
18. in geology, an extensive area from whose central region the strata dip quaquaversally to a moderate amount, so as to give rise to a geologically and topographically peculiar type of structure.
19. in coal-mining, a channel washed out or in some way eroded in a coal-seam, and afterward filled up with clay or sand. also called, in some english coal-fields, a horse, and in others a want; sometimes also a horse-back, and in the south wales coal-field a swine-back.
20. A man of great claims to admiration; one of distinguished personality; hence, one who puts on such an appearance, or endeavors to appear important or distinguished; a dandy: as, a howling swell (a conspicuously great swell).
21. in a stop-motion of a loom, a curved lever in the shuttle-box, which raises a catch out of engagement with the stop or stop-finger whenever the shuttle fairly enters the shuttle-box, but which, when the shuttle fails to enter, permits such engagement, thus bringing into action mechanism that stops the loom. compare stop-motion.
22. first-rate of its kind; hence, elegant; stylish.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia