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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Development :: Development (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.
Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves..
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..
Expansibility :: Expansibility (n.) The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air..
Style :: Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax..
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.
Dispread :: Dispread (v. i.) To extend or expand itself.
Educate :: Educate (v. t.) To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste..
Rarefy :: Rarefy (v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense..
Extensive :: Extensive (a.) Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness..
Open :: Open (v. t.) To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand..
Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Lichen :: Lichen (n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great
Tournure :: Tournure (n.) Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
Pileus :: Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet..
Greaten :: Greaten (v. t.) To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand.
Expansible :: Expansible (a.) Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.
Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose..
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..
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