Definition of expand

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Expand (v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5..

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Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf..
Hypocraterimorphous :: Hypocraterimorphous (a.) Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac..
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. i.) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction..
Intumesce :: Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe..
Roussette :: Roussette (n.) A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings..
Spreader :: Spreader (n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates..
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose..
Springe :: Springbuck (n.) A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer..
Petal :: Petal (n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.
Great :: Great (superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length..
Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind..
Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency..
Expander :: Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc..
Evolve :: Evolve (v. t.) To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
Distend :: Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
Disclosed :: Disclosed (p. a.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.
Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair..
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