widening
present participle ofwiden
| 单词 | widening |
| 释义 | widening present participle ofwiden widen verb[IorT] uk/ˈwaɪ.dən/us/ˈwaɪ.dən/widenverb[I or T](DISTANCE)B2 tobecome, or to make somethinggreaterinwidth: As itapproachesthesea, theriverbeginsto widen(out).
Enlarging and inflating
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger widenverb[I or T](AMOUNT)B2 to (causesomething to)becomelargeror toincludealargeramountornumber: Hiseyes/smilewidened. Why not widen thediscussiontoincludetheMuslimandJewishpointsofview? Enlarging and inflating
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger Examplesofwideningwidening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, these differences appear to bewideningover time. From theCambridge English Corpus Thewideningsplit between the maritime unions and the general labour movement is also illustrated well by the events of mid-1917. From theCambridge English Corpus This finding points towards thewideningof marriage fields and sheds light on the process of decreasing geographical endogamy in the twentieth century. From theCambridge English Corpus This relation is used in the typing rules to preventwideninga confined type to a public type; confinement-preserving widening requires safe subtyping to hold. From theCambridge English Corpus For confined types it is necessary to restrictwideningof types to prevent a confined type from being cast to a plain reference. From theCambridge English Corpus Note that complexwideningoperators, such as the ones that will be presented in the following sections, will not generally be stable. From theCambridge English Corpus We are going to illustrate the ideas that can be used to build elementarywideningoperators over such subsets. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarwideningof access to help applies when the children live closer to or with their parents. From theCambridge English Corpus They know from bitter experience that politicians' promises of prosperity can easily evaporate into deepening poverty andwideningincome gaps. From theCambridge English Corpus This was necessary as globalization had resulted in awideningof the income gap. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead of creating a new citizenry encompassing both rural and urban, they created awideningrural+ urban gulf. From theCambridge English Corpus The analyser is a robust, fast, precise and scalable and does not requirewideningfor the largest program in the benchmark suite. From theCambridge English Corpus Thewideningof this divergence is fully consistent with the existence of the above-discussed constraints on the ability of family farms to reach large sizes. From theCambridge English Corpus While such figures alone reveal awideningfascination in the psychic terrain of the ancient, the rich breadth of subject matter also deserves attention. From theCambridge English Corpus Thewideningdifference in the levels of wealth between these two families cannot all be attributed, however, to the respective sizes of their initial assets. 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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