expand 的 2 个定义
- to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- to spread or stretch out; unfold: A bird expands its wings.
- to express in fuller form or greater detail; develop: to expand a short story into a novel.
- Mathematics. to write so as to show the products of its factors.Compare factor. to rewrite as a sum, product, etc., of terms of a particular kind: to expand a function in a power series.
- to increase or grow in extent, bulk, scope, etc.: Most metals expand with heat. The mind expands with experience.
- to spread out; unfold; develop: The buds had not yet expanded.
- to express something more fully or in greater detail: to expand on a statement.
expand 近义词
extend, augment
expand 的近义词 56 个
- bolster
- broaden
- develop
- enlarge
- grow
- increase
- open
- spread
- swell
- widen
- aggrandize
- amplify
- bloat
- burgeon
- detail
- diffuse
- dilate
- distend
- elaborate
- embellish
- explicate
- fatten
- heighten
- hike
- inflate
- lengthen
- magnify
- mount
- multiply
- mushroom
- pad
- piggyback
- prolong
- protract
- pyramid
- stretch
- thicken
- unfold
- unfurl
- unravel
- unroll
- wax
- beef up
- blow up
- bulk up
- fan out
- fill out
- open out
- outspread
- puff up
- slap on
- soup up
- spread out
- stretch out
- tack on
- upsurge
expand 的反义词 27 个
go into detail
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- Then the novel coronavirus forced dozens of states to quickly expand absentee voting, and the slowdowns got more dramatic.
- In response to the coronavirus, nearly half of all states expanded access to mail ballots for their primaries, either by allowing fear of the coronavirus as a reason or proactively sending an application or ballot to every registered voter.
- Insider has had its sights on Asia Pacific to expand its tech and business coverage for some time.
- They were nominated just as the program prepared to expand one of its available investment funds to also reflect about two dozen emerging-market countries, including China.
- A key finding involves a long-standing practice — which was expanded by Congress several times — to deputize Boeing employees to act in behalf of FAA while reviewing aircraft designs.
- He once experimented with dressing as “Hilda the Wicked Witch” as a way to expand his business to Halloween.
- It also provides a critical opportunity to expand the ranks of the middle class.
- Dr. Grenci, who agrees, also saw it as a way to expand her own knowledge on the subculture and what makes it so appealing.
- The center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco, and other human rights organizations went to work to expand the law.
- And the CENTCOM commander said that ISIS figures could expand dramatically based on the nature of its actions.
- His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.
- In one, which occurs not infrequently, a thickened arm is made to expand into something like a fan-shaped hand, as in Fig. 18.
- Thus the increase of temperature that augments the elasticity of a fluid confined, would expand it in the same degree.
- Those modern marine engines use about the same steam pressure and expand about in the same proportion.
- Dr. May looked at his son, and saw his face clear up, his brow expand, and his lips unclose with admiration.