enlarger

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noun

Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger.

“a penis enlarger”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

nounenlarger (plural enlargers)

plural enlargers

  1. Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger.

    a penis enlarger

  2. artsAn optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative
  3. rareOne who enlarges.

    In like manner the original book closes, at xxix. 1, with a subscription; and a few additional chapters follow, added by the enlarger of the book.

    1880 October, Archibald Duff, “The History of Research Concerning the Structure of the O. T. Historical Books”, in Edwards A[masa] Park, editor, The Bibliotheca Sacra, volume XXXVII, number 148, Andover: […] Warren F. Draper; London: Trübner and Company, page 735
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    EUGE´NIUS, who was bishop of Toledo from a. d. 646 to 657, is mentioned under Dracontius as the editor and enlarger of the work by Dracontius upon the Creation.

    1846, William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: Taylor and Walton, […]; John Murray, […], page 86

    Muffett’s book was not a recipe book, but the credentials of its author (as well as those of the book’s “enlarger”) put him in the rare position of being a qualified English physician writing for a lay audience on paramedical matters.

    1996, Suzanne W[hite] Hull, “Preparing Food”, in Women According to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women, Walnut Creek; London; New Delhi: AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 164

Origin

Translations

Danish forstørrelsesapparat
  • forstørrelsesapparatoptical device used to make enlarged prints
French agrandisseur
  • agrandisseuroptical device used to make enlarged prints
Hungarian nagyítógép
  • nagyítógépoptical device used to make enlarged prints
Italian ingranditore
  • ingranditoreoptical device used to make enlarged prints
Norwegian Bokmål forstørrelsesapparat
  • forstørrelsesapparatoptical device used to make enlarged prints
Polish powiększalnik
  • powiększalnikoptical device used to make enlarged prints
Russian фотоувеличи́тель
  • фотоувеличи́тель (fotouveličítelʹ)optical device used to make enlarged prints
Spanish ampliadora
  • ampliadoraoptical device used to make enlarged prints
Ukrainian фотозбі́льшувач
  • фотозбі́льшувач (fotozbílʹšuvač)optical device used to make enlarged prints

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APA

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Chicago

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