inflate

7 definitions found

inflate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inflate \In*flate"\, p. a. [L. inflatus, p. p. of inflare to
     inflate; pref. in- in + flare to blow. See Blow to puff
     wind.]
     Blown in; inflated. --Chaucer.
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  Inflate \In*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflated; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Inflating.]
     1. To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand;
        to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the
        lungs.
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              When passion's tumults in the bosom rise,
              Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. --J.
                                                    Scott of
                                                    Amwell.
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     2. Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one
        with pride or vanity.
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              Inflate themselves with some insane delight.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     3. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to
        inflate the currency.
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  Inflate \In*flate"\, v. i.
     To expand; to fill; to distend.
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inflate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  inflate
      v 1: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
           [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify]
      2: fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" [syn: inflate,
         blow up] [ant: deflate]
      3: cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or
         credit; "The war inflated the economy" [ant: deflate]
      4: increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in
         value; "inflate the currency" [ant: deflate]
      5: become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: balloon,
         inflate, billow]

inflate - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  deflate
  deflate compression
  deflate/inflate compression
  inflate
  
     <file format, compression> A compression standard derived
     from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP,
     and png, among others.
  
     Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented
     compression algorithms.
  
     Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file
     which has been compressed using deflate compression.  The
     opposite, inflate, means to decompress data which has been
     deflated.
  
     Deflate is described in RFC 1951.
  
     (1997-06-21)
  

inflate - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  inflate
   vt.
  
     To decompress or puff a file. Rare among Internet hackers, used
     primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.
  

inflate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "inflate":
     Barnumize, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon, bloat,
     blow, blow up, bombast, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk,
     bulk out, crescendo, develop, dilate, distend, enlarge, exaggerate,
     exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, hike, hike up, huff,
     increase, jack up, jump up, lay it on, lengthen, magnify, maximize,
     overdevelop, overdistend, overdraw, overexpand, overextend,
     overstrain, overstretch, parlay, pile it on, pontificate, puff,
     puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, strain,
     stretch, sufflate, swell, talk big, talk highfalutin, thicken, up,
     vapor, widen