widening
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwaɪdənɪŋ/
Adjective
widening (not comparable)
- Growing wider or farther apart.
- The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.
- 1920, William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming:
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; […]
Noun
widening (plural widenings)
- The action of the verb widen.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla:
- She looked up sleepily and asked me what it was, and with the very words I thought she drew in her breath with a widening of the nostrils and seemed to come suddenly and fully alive.
- 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New signalbox at Twyford”, in Modern Railways, page 227:
- Near the site of the old Kennet Bridge signalbox, a down goods loop has been provided and this necessitated the widening of an embankment and the slewing of the up and down relief lines.
Derived terms
Translations
act of widening
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