swelling

swell

old-fashioned Very nice; excellent. That's a swell idea, Frank. Thanks for the books, Mom, they're swell!

swell out

To bulge or protrude outward. The spot on his head swelled out where he had been hit by the baseball. After the flooding, the walls in the basement began swelling out with excess moisture.
See also: out, swell

swell up

1. To become large, inflated, or bulging. The girl's arm swelled up where the bee had stung her. The balloon began swelling up with hot air.
2. To become full to capacity (with some emotion). I swelled up with pride after the boss complimented my work. It's so nice seeing all those students swelling up with happiness as they cross the stage and receive their diplomas.
See also: swell, up

swell with

1. To become inflated or bulging with something. The girl's arm swelled with fluid as a result of the injury. The balloon began swelling with hot air.
2. To become filled with some emotion. I swelled with pride after the boss complimented my work. It's so nice seeing all those students swelling with happiness as they cross the stage and receive their diplomas.
See also: swell
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

swell out

to bulge outward; to expand outward. The sides of the box swelled out because it was too full. The west wall of the garage swelled out just before the building collapsed.
See also: out, swell

swell up

to enlarge; to inflate; to bulge out. I struck my thumb with a hammer and it swelled up something awful.
See also: swell, up

swell with something

 
1. Lit. to expand from a particular cause. My knee joints swelled with arthritis, His nose swelled after it was struck by the door.
2. Fig. to seem to swell with a feeling such as pride. His chest swelled with pride at the thought of his good performance. Ted swelled with pride at the announcement.
See also: swell
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

swell up

v.
1. To become swollen: I put ice on my injured ankle so that it wouldn't swell up.
2. To become filled, as with pride, arrogance, or anger: The new parents swelled up with pride.
3. To rise or surge from an inner source: After I was fired unjustly, rage swelled up within me.
See also: swell, up
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

swell

mod. fine; excellent. (Also sarcastic use.) Where did you get that swell hat?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • swell out
  • pooch
  • pooch out
  • puff out
  • puff up
  • fashion
  • stick out
  • push out of
  • push out of (something)
  • jut
References in periodicals archive
Increase in cross-linker concentration from 0.020% to 0.16%, the swelling capacity decreases up to 70% while the swelling rate increases from 0.007g water/g dry hydrogel sec to 0.024g water/g dry hydrogel sec, respectively.
Swelling Kinetics at Different Crosslinker Concentrations
Synthesis, Applications and Swelling Properties of Poly (Sodium Acrylate-Coacrylamide) Based Superabsorbent Hydrogels
And through the ultraviolet light, the system reduces the moisture in the affected body part and introduces fresh air to the sterile parts as the sensors measure the pressure and detect any likely swellings.
Invention by UAE teens can prevent swelling from fractures
[4] It can be both diagnostic and therapeutic in cystic swellings. [5] It is helpful for the diagnosis of salivary gland tumours where it can differentiate between a malignant and a benign tumour with over 90% accuracy.
It may also alert us to the probabilities of malignant versus benign nature of neck swellings.
A STUDY ON HISTOPATHOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL EVALUATION OF NECK SWELLINGS IN SURGICAL OUTPATIENTS--AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
The time to reach equilibrium or 'maximum' swelling will increase with increased test piece thickness, in a manner roughly proportional to the square of the thickness.
By assuming that swelling is isotropic, i.e., swelling in the thickness direction is equal to that in other directions, volume change can be calculated from:
Swelling characteristics of fluorocarbon rubber in gasoline blended with ethanol: Relation to vulcanizate thickness
where [[epsilon].sub.s] is the swelling strain, H is the initial height of the rock sample, and [DELTA]H is the swelling deformation.
A Lateral Unconfined Swelling Test for Swelling Rocks
This research presents correlation equations developed to estimate swell pressure of clays using laboratory tests performed on swelling clays in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia.
Empirical correlations for the swelling pressure of expansive clays in the City of Barranquilla, Colombia/Correlaciones empiricas para la determinacion de la presion de expansion de arcillas expansivas en Barranquilla, Colombia
Figure 7 presents the effect of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose on swelling capacity of NaCMC-g-PAA.
Superabsorbent Polymer Based on Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose Grafted Polyacrylic Acid by Inverse Suspension Polymerization
To the best of our knowledge, fast swelling superabsorbent composites that were synthesized using partially neutralized acrylic acid, acrylamide (AM), 2-acryloylamino-2-methyl-lpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS), and oxidized starch phosphate have seldom been reported.
Fast-swelling oxidized starch phosphate-poly(acrylate/ acrylamide/2-acryloylamino-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid) superabsorbent composite
Increasing time duration was associated with more pain and swelling irrespective of the method used for bone cutting.
EFFECTS OF SURGERY DURATION ON POST-EXTRACTION SEQUELAE FOLLOWING IMPACTED THIRD MOLAR SURGERY BY USING TWO DIFFERENT BONE CUTTING METHODS; A DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMIZED TRIAL
A 31-year-old woman presented with dyspnea, dysphasia, and a 4-day history of bilateral parotid swelling. She had no history of mumps infection or vaccination.
Potentially lethal pharyngolaryngeal edema with dyspnea in adult patients with mumps: a series of 5 cases
Solvent swelling is a simple and useful technique for determining the solubility parameters of cross-linked polymers, for characterizing solvent-polymer interactions, or, using suitable theoretical models, for calculating cross-link densities and molecular weights between cross-links of polymeric networks [1-3].
Solvent swelling of kukersite oil shale macromolecular organic matter in binary mixtures: impact of specifically interacting solvents
Due to the mentioned properties of hydrogels a very wide range of application areas are present, such as high swelling capacity and lack of toxicity and biocompatibility; these hydrogels are used for many applications including disposable diapers, absorbent pads, controlled release fertilizers in agricultural areas, water blocking tapes, feminine napkins, separation processes, controlled drug delivery systems, space technology, and extraction of precious metals [3-7].
Modeling and investigation of the swelling kinetics of acrylamide-sodium acrylate hydrogel