widening

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪdənɪŋ/

Adjective

widening (not comparable)

1. 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)

1. 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

• widening conversion

Translations

act of widening

• Finnish: laajentaminen (fi)
• Galician: ancheamento (gl) m
• Portuguese: alargamento m
• Russian: расшире́ние (ru) n (rasširénije)

Verb

widening

1. present participle and gerund of widen

Anagrams

• indewing