inflating
present participle ofinflate
| 单词 | inflating |
| 释义 | inflating present participle ofinflate inflate verb[IorT] uk/ɪnˈfleɪt/us/ɪnˈfleɪt/inflateverb[I or T](FILL WITH AIR)to make somethingincreaseinsizebyfillingit withair, or toincreaseinsizewhenfilledwithair: He inflated theballoonswithhelium. Wewatchthehot-airballoonslowlyinflate. Enlarging and inflating
inflateverb[I or T](MAKE LARGER)tobecomeor to make somethinglargeror moreimportant: They inflatedtheirpartin therescueeverytimethey told thestory. The star'segohas inflated todangerousproportions. Exaggerating & playing down
inflateverb[I or T](ECONOMY)finance & economicsspecialized to have orcauseageneralincreaseinpricesandeconomicactivity: There have beeneffortsto inflate theeconomyandpropupassetprices. There is atheorythat you shouldborrowwhenyourmoneycanbuysoundassetslikegoldandrealestateandpayoff thatdebtwithcheapermoneyas aneconomyinflates. Price increases
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Economics Examplesofinflatinginflating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Inflatingat this percentage gave a perfect fit for 1929-1945 in which the two series overlap. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, teachers may be biased in their perceptions of children who are functioning poorly in the school setting,inflatingtheir reporting of psychological problems. From theCambridge English Corpus Firstly to remove year-to-year variation which, byinflatingexperimental variation, reduces the capacity of the experiment to detect treatment effects. From theCambridge English Corpus To investigate the clinical significance ofinflatingone's selfviews, four inflation indices were computed and related to children's level of aggression. From theCambridge English Corpus These figures are quite remarkable :onsidering their probable bias towardsinflatingthe extent of non-use. From theCambridge English Corpus Because young bats (born after the cyclone) were present during our counts, therebyinflatingpostcyclone numbers, actual cyclone-related mortality rate was probably underestimated. From theCambridge English Corpus Whatever national, regional and local monetary factors areinflatingcost aggregates should also beinflatingreceipts aggregates in nearly the same fashion. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, the other bubbles in an eternallyinflatingspacetime are irrelevant. From theCambridge English Corpus Overall, this will increase both the investors' awareness and the managers' risk of cosmeticallyinflatingearnings. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the methods applied had a slightlyinflatingeffect. From theCambridge English Corpus It seems the only way out of this dilemma is that men areinflatingtheir conquests and women not (highly unlikely). From theCambridge English Corpus However, they also affect the environmental and social responses produced by the individual, therebyinflatingthe chance of adverse outcome and maladaptive experience. From theCambridge English Corpus This increased variance speeds the response to selection, sharpening clines and thus furtherinflatingthe variance. From theCambridge English Corpus We treated each observation for an individual as independent, thus artificiallyinflatingdegrees of freedom in statistical tests. From theCambridge English Corpus This could have resulted ininflatingor deflating the rates of foetal deaths. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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