Talk:dilate

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procrastinate81.11.206.32 18:38, 22 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Example sentence? Equinox ◑ 11:10, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

hm,mostifindisw/DILATION..cantreadthis2wel:A New English Dictionary of the English Language https://books.google.be/books?id=wH9FAAAAcAAJ Charles Richardson - 1836 _ Dilation, — delay, procrastination. Dilatory, — delaying, procrastinating ; slow to perform ; loitering, tardy. The Capytaine perceiuynge hys [the Lord Say] ...81.11.206.17 12:30, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

RFV discussion: October–December 2020
RfV-sense for the sense added here. (The definition should also either be reworded like a verb, or formatted as a non-gloss def.) - -sche (discuss) 03:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I've seen it but I wouldn't consider it a separate sense. It's a form of trolling/annoyance by reminding somebody that they may have to dilate (apparently an unpleasant chore). On the other hand I suppose "eat shit" is not literally telling somebody to consume excrement, so I dunno. Equinox ◑ 12:15, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I share that ambivalence: on one hand it seems like it could be literal; on the other hand we do have separate senses for things like take a hike, fly a kite, jump in a lake. I suppose whether to have a separate sense depends in large part on whether this use is common enough to meet CFI at all, and then whether the citations discuss dilation prior to telling someone to "go dilate", which would seem more literal—like [as an invented example] telling a pollster to "[fuck off outta here and] go run a poll" is probably best taken to be literal even if not a sincere expectation that he will run a poll—or just drop "dilate!" without prior mention of dilation, which would seem more like fly a kite etc. - -sche (discuss) 17:06, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * If dilating is a real thing the use sounds to me like telling a model "shouldn't you be throwing up" (waxing, etc.) as a way of dismissal. It's referring to something literal.  (When I learned English models were expected to be super-thin.  If that meant some bulimia that was the price of success.  Possibly standards have changed.)  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:00, 31 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Dilation is certainly a real thing (and probably not much fun) for m2f trans. Back in old days when I rented a house as a student I remember having an argument with my landlady and she said "ok go and do your homework" to get rid of me. lol. Again: it's just a dismissal by telling someone to do something that you think they are obliged to do, which you are personally better than. Equinox ◑ 17:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 06:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)