widenings
Becoming more broad
Widenings are instances or acts of making something broader or more expansive.
The word applies to physical expansion—road widenings to accommodate traffic, river widenings where channels spread—and to abstract broadening: Recent widenings of the investigation have brought new suspects.
Increase in scope
- broadeningIncreasing in extent
- extensionAdded part or duration
- rangeExtent of variation
- reachExtend to touch
horizons · perspective · parameters · boundaries · inclusion · purview · embrace · ambit
Widening of an opening
- pupilsStudents or eye openings
- arteriesTubes carrying oxygenated blood
- vesselsCarriers or containers
- cervixUterine opening to vagina
bronchi · urethra · esophagus · airways · capillaries · nostrils · pores · sphincter
Available positions or gaps
- mouthsOral cavities, plural
- entrancesOpenings for access, or beguiles
- channelsPaths for transmission
- passagesSegments or thoroughfares
funnels · flares · bells · cones · apertures · tapers · expansions · spreads
Parallel traffic divisions
- expansionIncrease in scope
- highwayMajor road for travel
- interchangeReciprocal transfer between parties
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
construction · traffic · pavement · shoulders · merge · capacity · congestion · infrastructure
Unequal differences in condition
- inequalitiesUnequal conditions or distributions
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- riftsBreaks or separations
- chasmsDeep narrow clefts
gulfs · divergence · spread · separation · margins · differences · polarization · schism
expansion
Increase in scope
- broadeningIncreasing in extent
- extensionAdded part or duration
- rangeExtent of variation
reach · horizons · perspective · parameters · boundaries · inclusion · purview · embrace · ambit · spectrum
dilation
Widening of an opening
cervix · bronchi · urethra · esophagus · airways · capillaries · nostrils · pores · sphincter · aperture
openings
Available positions or gaps
passages · funnels · flares · bells · cones · apertures · tapers · expansions · spreads · outlets
lanes
Parallel traffic divisions
- expansionIncrease in scope
- highwayMajor road for travel
- interchangeReciprocal transfer between parties
bottleneck · construction · traffic · pavement · shoulders · merge · capacity · congestion · infrastructure · asphalt
disparities
Unequal differences in condition
- inequalitiesUnequal conditions or distributions
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- riftsBreaks or separations
chasms · gulfs · divergence · spread · separation · margins · differences · polarization · schism · breach
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Progressive reductions in width
contractions · constrictions · taperings · restrictions · compressions
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Progressive reductions in width
restrictions · limitations · curtailments · reductions · contractions
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Progressive reductions in width
constrictions · strictures · blockages · occlusions · closings
- widening gap
- road wideningEnlarging a thoroughfare's breadth
- eye wideningOcular response to shock