Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 33
Enlarging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enlarge.
Enlarge (v. t.) 擴大；擴展；放大（照片）；【美】釋放 To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
To enlarge their possessions of land. -- Locke.
Enlarge (v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
O ye Corinthians, our . . . heart is enlarged. -- 2 Cor. vi. 11.
Enlarge (v. t.) To set at large or set free. [Archaic]
It will enlarge us from all restraints. -- Barrow.
{Enlarging hammer}, A hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. -- Knight.
{To enlarge an order} or {To enlarge a rule} (Law), To extend the time for complying with it. -- Abbott.
{To enlarge one's self}, To give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." -- Clarendon.
{To enlarge the heart}, To make free, liberal, and charitable.
Syn: To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See {Increase}.
Enlarge (v. i.) 擴大；詳述 [（+on/ upon）] To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
Enlarge (v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
To enlarge upon this theme. -- M. Arnold.
Enlarge (v. i.) (Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
Enlarge (v.) Make larger; "She enlarged the flower beds".
Enlarge (v.) Make large; "blow up an image" [syn: blow up, enlarge, magnify] [ant: reduce, scale down].
Enlarge (v.) Become larger or bigger.
Enlarge (v.) Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten].
Enlarged (a.) 放大的；增大的；擴大的 Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
Enlarged (a.) (Of an organ or body part) Excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells; "hypertrophied myocardial fibers" [syn: hypertrophied, enlarged] [ant: atrophied, diminished, wasted].
Enlarged (a.) As of a photograph; made larger; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details" [syn: blown-up, enlarged]
Enlarged (a.) Larger than normal; "enlarged joints."
Enlarged (a.) Enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes" [syn: exaggerated, magnified, enlarged].
Enlargement (n.) 擴大；擴展；（書的）增訂 [U]；（建築物的）增建；增補物 [U] [C]；（照相的）放大；放大的照片 [U] [C] The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
Enlargement (n.) Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.
Give enlargement to the swain. -- Shak.
Enlargement (n.) Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.
An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. -- Clarendon.
Enlargement (n.) The act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope [syn: {expansion}, {enlargement}] [ant: {contraction}].
Enlargement (n.) The state of being enlarged.
Enlargement (n.) A discussion that provides additional information [syn: {expansion}, {enlargement}, {elaboration}].
Enlargement (n.) A photographic print that has been enlarged [syn: {enlargement}, {blowup}, {magnification}].
Enlargement (n.) [ S or U ] 擴大；擴充；擴展；增大 The fact of being enlarged.
// I am pleased to announce the enlargement of the History Department by three new teachers.
Enlargement (n.) [ C ] 擴大物，放大物；（尤指）放大照片 Something, especially a photograph, that has been enlarged.
// I had an enlargement of my graduation photo done for my grandparents.
Enlarger (n.) 【攝】放大機 [C] One who or that which enlarges.
Enlarger (n.) (Photography) An optical device for making copies of photographs larger than the original, having a head for holding the original, a source of illumination to project the image, and a bed for holding the sensitized photographic paper which will received the larger image.
Enlarger (n.) Photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph.
Enlay (v. t.) See Inlay. (Archaic)
Compare: Inlay
Inlay (n.) Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety; as, ornamented with ivory inlay.
Crocus and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground. -- Milton.
The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. -- Tennyson.
Inlay (v. t.) 把……鑲入，把……嵌入 To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, ivory, mother-of-pearl, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.
Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. -- Shak.
But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story. -- Milton.
Inlay (n.) (Dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
Inlay (n.) A decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface.
Inlay (v.) Decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal.
Inlay (n.) [ C or U ] 鑲嵌圖案（或裝飾）A decorative pattern put into the surface of an object.
// The walls of the palace are marble with silver inlay.
Enlengthen (v. t.) To lengthen, to render or become longer. [Obs.]
Enleven (n.) Eleven. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Enlight (v. t.) To illumine; to enlighten. [R.]
Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. -- Pope.
Enlight (v. t.) (Also Enlicht) (Rare, Archaic) To enlighten, especially to shed light on, illuminate (frequently figurative).
Enlighten (v. t.) 啟發，啟迪；使擺脫矇昧；教育，教導 To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
His lightnings enlightened the world. -- Ps. xcvii. 4.
Enlighten (v. t.) To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. -- Trench.
Enlighten (v.) Make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" [syn: {enlighten}, {edify}].
Enlighten (v.) Give spiritual insight to; in religion [syn: {enlighten}, {irradiate}].
Enlighten (v.) Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: {clear}, {clear up}, {shed light on}, {crystallize}, {crystallise}, {crystalize}, {crystalise}, {straighten out}, {sort out}, {enlighten}, {illuminate}, {elucidate}].
Enlightener (n.) One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
Enlightening (a.) 有啟發作用的；使人領悟的 Enlightening so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement.
Syn: edifying.
Enlightening (a.) Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action.
Enlightening (a.) Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: enlightening, informative, illuminating] [ant: unenlightening, unilluminating].
Enlightening (a.) Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read" [syn: edifying, enlightening] [ant: unedifying, unenlightening].
Compare: Edifying
Edifying (a.) 有教化意味的；有益的；edify 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Providing moral or intellectual instruction.
‘Edifying literature.’
Edifying (a.) [With negative] Used to express one's disapproval of something.
‘Seeing a person blind drunk is not an edifying sight.’
Enlightening (a.) Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; as, an enlightening glimpse of government in action.
Enlightening (a.) Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: {enlightening}, {informative}, {illuminating}] [ant: {unenlightening}, {unilluminating}].
Enlightening (a.) Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read" [syn: {edifying}, {enlightening}] [ant: {unedifying}, {unenlightening}].
Enlightening (a.) 啓迪的；使人增進知識的；使人獲得啟發的 Giving you more information and understanding of something.
// That was a very enlightening programme.
// The instruction manual that came with my new computer wasn't very enlightening about how to operate it.
Enlightenment (n.) 啟蒙；教化；開明 Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Enlightenment (n.) 啟蒙運動 Same as {Aufklärung}.
Enlightenment (n.) Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge [ant: {unenlightenment}].
Enlightenment (n.) (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness [syn: {nirvana}, {enlightenment}].
Enlightenment (n.) A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine; "the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms" [syn: {Enlightenment}, {Age of Reason}].
Enlightenment (n.) [ U ] 領悟；啓發；開導 The state of understanding something.
// Can you give me any enlightenment on what happened?
Enlightenment (n.) [ U ] （印度教和佛教中的）般若，智慧，覺悟 In Hinduism and Buddhism, the highest spiritual state that can be achieved.
The Enlightenment (n.) [ S ] （18世紀歐洲推崇科學和理性、質疑宗教和傳統的）啓蒙運動 The period in the 18 th century in Europe when many people began to emphasize the importance of science and reason, rather than religion and tradition.
Enlimn (v. t.) To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] -- Palsgrave.
Enlink (v. t.) To chain together; to connect, as by links.
Enlisted (imp. & p. p.) of Enlist.
Enlisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enlist.
Enlist (v. t.) 徵募，使入伍，徵（兵）；謀取……的贊助（或支持）；獲得（支持，幫助等）[（+in/ for）] To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
Enlist (v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
Enlist (v. t.) To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
Enlist (v. i.) 從軍，入伍，應募；贊助，支持，（熱心）參加 [（+in）] To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
Enlist (v. i.) To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
Enlist (v.) Join the military.
Enlist (v.) Hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support" [syn: engage, enlist].
Enlist (v.) Engage somebody to enter the army [syn: enlist, draft, muster in] [ant: discharge, muster out].
Enlistment (n.) [U] [C] 徵募；應徵入伍；服兵役期限 The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
Enlistment (n.) The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
Enlistment (n.) A period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour].
Enlistment (n.) The act of enlisting (as in a military service).
Enlive (v. t.) To enliven. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Enlivened (imp. & p. p.) of Enliven.
Enlivening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enliven.
Enliven (v. t.) 使有生氣；使活躍；使快活 To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.
Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. -- Cowley.
Enliven (v. t.) To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.
Syn: To animate; rouse; inspire; cheer; encourage; comfort; exhilarate; inspirit; invigorate.
Enliven (v.) Heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: {inspire}, {animate}, {invigorate}, {enliven}, {exalt}].
Enliven (v.) Make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: {enliven}, {liven}, {liven up}, {invigorate}, {animate}] [ant: {blunt}, {deaden}].
Enliven (v.) [ T ] 使有生氣，使活躍；使更有趣 To make something more interesting.
// The game was much enlivened when both teams scored within five minutes of each other.
Enlivener (n.) 使有生氣的人；使活躍的人；使有趣的人 One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
Enlock (v. t.) To lock; to inclose.
Enlock (v. t.) To lock up : enclose.
Compare: Enclose
Enclose (v.) [ T ] (Surround) (C1) 把…圍起來；圍住，包住 To surround something.
// The park that encloses the monument has recently been enlarged.
Enclose (v.) [ T ] (Send) (B2) 隨信（或包裹）附上；附入，封入 To send something in the same envelop or parcel as something else.
// Please enclose a curriculum vitae with your application.
Enlumine (v. t.) To illumine. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Enlute (v. t.) To coat with clay; to lute.
Enmanche (a.) (Her.) Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.
Enmarble (v. t.) To make hard as marble; to harden. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
En masse (adv.) (ph.) 【法】全體；一齊 All together; "the students turned out en masse" [syn: en masse, en bloc, as a group].
Enmesh (v. t.) 使絆住；使陷入 To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. -- Shak.
My doubts enmesh me if I try. -- Lowell.
Enmesh (v.) Entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh [syn: enmesh, mesh, ensnarl].
Enmew (v. t.) See Emmew.
Enmist (v. t.) To infold, as in a mist.
Enmities (n. pl. ) Of Enmity.
Enmity (n.) 敵意；不和 [U] [C] [（+against/ towards）] The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
Enmity (n.) A state of opposition; hostility.
Enmossed (a.) Covered with moss; mossed.
Enmove (v. t.) See Emmove.
Enmuffle (v. t.) To muffle up.
Enmure (v. t.) To immure. [Obs.]
Ennation (n.) (Zool.) The ninth segment in insects.
Ennead (n.) The number nine or a group of nine.
The Enneads, The title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.
Ennead (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one [syn: nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead].
Enneagon (n.) (Geom.) 【數】九角形；九邊形 A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
Enneagonal (a.) (Geom.) Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.
Enneagynous (a.) (Bot.) Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.
Enneahedral (a.) (Geom.) 九角的；九邊的；九面的 Having nine sides. Enneahedria
Enneahedria (n.) Alt. of Enneahedron.
Enneahedron (n.) (Geom.) 【數】九面體 A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.
Enneandria (n.) (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens. Enneandrian
Enneandrian (a.) Alt. of Enneandrous.
Enneandrous (a.) (Bot.) Having nine stamens.
Enneapetalous (a.) (Bot.) Having nine petals, or flower leaves.
Enneaspermous (a.) (Bot.) Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits. Enneatic
Enneatic (a.) Alt. of Enneatical.
Enneatical (a.) Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.
Enneatical day, Every ninth day of a disease.
Enneatical year, Every ninth year of a man's life.
Ennew (v. t.) To make new. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Enniche (v. t.) To place in a niche. -- Sterne.
Ennobled (imp. & p. p.) of Ennoble.
Ennobling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ennoble.
Ennoble (v. t.) 使成為貴族；封（爵）；使尊貴；使高尚 To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." -- Trench.
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. -- Pope.
Ennoble (v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Syn: To raise; dignify; exalt; elevate; aggrandize.
Ennoble (v.) Confer dignity or honor upon; "He was dignified with a title" [syn: {ennoble}, {dignify}].
Ennoble (v.) Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility [syn: {ennoble}, {gentle}, {entitle}].
Ennoblement (n.) 昇華；變得高尚；封為貴族 The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. -- Bacon.
Ennoblement (n.) That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
Ennoblement (n.) The state of being noble.
Ennoblement (n.) The act of raising someone to the nobility.
Ennobler (n.) One who ennobles.
Ennui (n.) 倦怠；無聊 A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. -- T. Gray.
Ennui (n.) The feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: boredom, ennui, tedium].
Ennuye (a.) 【法】厭倦的；無聊的 Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.
Ennuye (n.) 【法】厭倦之人 One who is affected with ennui.
Ennuyee (n.) A woman affected with ennui. -- Mrs. Jameson.
Enodal (a.) (Bot.) Without a node. -- Gray.
Enodation (n.) The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty. [R.] -- Bailey.
Enode (v. t.) To clear of knots; to make clear. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Enoint (a.) Anointed.
Enomotarch (n.) The commander of an enomoty.
Enomoty (n.) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
Enopla (n. pl.) One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.
Enoptomancy (n.) Divination by the use of a mirror.
Enorm (a.) Enormous.
Enormities (n. pl. ) of Enormity.
Enormity (n.) 窮兇極惡；滔天大罪；【口】巨大，深遠 The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.
The enormity of his learned acquisitions. -- De Quincey.
Enormity (n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.
These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. -- South.
Enormity (n.) The quality of being outrageous [syn: {outrageousness}, {enormity}].
Enormity (n.) Vastness of size or extent; "in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size"; "universities recognized the enormity of their task."
Enormity (n.) The quality of extreme wickedness.
Enormity (n.) An act of extreme wickedness.
Enormous (a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
Enormous (a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.
Enormous (a.) (B1) 極大的；巨大的；龐大的 Extremely large.
// An enormous car/ house.
// He earns an enormous salary.
// I was absolutely enormous when I was pregnant.
// You've been an enormous help.
Enormously (adv.) 巨大地，龐大地 In an enormous degree.
Enormousness (n.) 龐大；巨大 The state of being enormous.
Enorthotrope (n.) 西洋鏡；留影盤；幻影轉盤〔一種玩具，圓盤的一面畫鳥籠，另一面畫鳥，旋轉時好像鳥在籠中〕 An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See {Thaumatrope}.
Compare: Thaumatrope
Thaumatrope (n.) 西洋鏡 An optical instrument or toy for showing the persistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
Note: It consists of a card having on its opposite faces figures of two different objects, or halves of the same object, as a bird and a cage, which, when the card is whirled rapidly round a diameter by the strings that hold it, appear to the eye combined in a single picture, as of a bird in its cage.
Enough (a.) 足夠的；充足的 Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! -- Luke xv. 17.
Enough (adv.) 足夠地；充分地 [+to-v]；很，十分 In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.