Definition of expand

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Expand (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy..

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Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..
Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Pileus :: Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
Dilator :: Dilator (n.) One who, or that which, widens or expands..
Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves..
Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand..
Explicate :: Explicate (v. t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
Expander :: Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc..
Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..
Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..
Dilator :: Dilator (n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator..
Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster..
Expansion :: Expansion (n.) That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal..
Disk :: Disk (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil..
Parathesis :: Parathesis (n.) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded..
Expanse :: Expanse (n.) That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky..
Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet..
Hysteranthous :: Hysteranthous (a.) Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.
Sea Orange :: Sea orange () A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
Development :: Development (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.
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