Commentary: Syntax
Examples:
We only partly inflated the balloon.
One fan inflated the base while another inflated the bubble and circulated air.
Once fully inflated, the first chamber 21 is maintained in an inflated state for a period of fifteen minutes.
To stay inflated, the eye constantly makes fluid which circulates inside the front of the eye.
When the bladder is first placed around the arm and not inflated, the artery beneath the bladder functions normally.
Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: Expansion,Cause_expansion
PropBank: inflate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 5
Commentary:
NOTE: compare carefully to sense 1; although both can be quantitative, this sense does not
Examples:
Griffis inflated his regular annual salary by $206433 over his last three years.
He has allowed a run in five of his last nine outings, which has inflated his ERA to 3.57.
I inflated the area that's clickable for the link and especially
the icon.
They dramatically inflated the proportion of users and
abusers.
It is too bad that he inflated the statistics pertaining to this
situation.
This type of prohibition is unfair if the misstatement clearly
inflated the purchase price.
A man accused of conspiring to pervert justice falsely inflated his
role in the murder case.
How can graduate schools and potential employers distinguish
students when grades have been inflated across the board?
Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: inflate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary:
NOTE:
Examples:
That is how counterfeit buyer agents inflated the housing bubble.
I guess in an effort to show how much Bruce Lee looks like himself, the design team inflated his head.
Booting around Wall Street types as state attorney general apparently has inflated his ego to preposterous proportions.
His wooing of her only inflated her disdain.
Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary:
NOTE: Involves an entire monetary system, usually the entire currency of an economy. Cannot involve only an individual transaction or set of transactions. This sense does not involve a misrepresentation of an object inflated or an increase in size/number. Syntax
Examples:
The war inflated the economy.
Now that they are twice as much, it's like the economy inflated by 50 percent.
As expected, the US government inflated the currency, as governments are prone to do.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: inflate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4