ALL meanings of inflate
in·flate
I i - abbreviation Technical meaning of INFLATE deflate 3
- verb with object inflate to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood. 1
- verb with object inflate to cause to expand or distend with air or gas: to inflate a balloon. 1
- verb with object inflate to puff up with pride, satisfaction, etc. 1
- verb with object inflate to elate. 1
- verb with object inflate Economics. to expand (money, prices, an economy, etc.) unduly in amount, value, or size; affect with inflation. 1
- verb without object inflate to become inflated. 1
- verb without object inflate to increase, especially suddenly and substantially: The $10 subscription has inflated to $25. 1
- noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
- noun inflate Fill (a balloon, tire, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended. 1
- transitive verb inflate fill with gas or air 1
- intransitive verb inflate be filled with gas or air 1
- transitive verb inflate enlarge or exaggerate 1
- verb inflate If you inflate something such as a balloon or tyre, or if it inflates, it becomes bigger as it is filled with air or a gas. 0
- verb inflate If you say that someone inflates the price of something, or that the price inflates, you mean that the price increases. 0
- verb inflate If someone inflates the amount or effect of something, they say it is bigger, better, or more important than it really is, usually so that they can profit from it. 0
- verb inflate to expand or cause to expand by filling with gas or air 0
- verb inflate to cause to increase excessively; puff up; swell 0
- verb inflate to cause inflation of (prices, money, etc) 0
- verb inflate to raise in spirits; elate 0
- verb inflate to undergo economic inflation 0
- verb transitive inflate to blow full or swell out as with air or gas; distend; expand; dilate 0
- verb transitive inflate to raise in spirits; make proud or elated 0
- verb transitive inflate to increase or raise beyond what is normal or valid 0
- verb transitive inflate to cause inflation of (money, credit, etc.) 0
- intransitive verb inflate to become inflated; swell 0