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00365471-n:
the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
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00363260-n:
the act of increasing something
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00365995-n:
the act of expanding an aperture
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00366317-n:
the act of expanding by pressure from within
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00366521-n:
act of expanding by lengthening or widening
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00367280-n:
the act of filling something with air
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00367427-n:
the act of expanding something in apparent size
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00367768-n:
act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
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Related
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00154778-v:
make larger
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Glosses
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00153263-v:
make bigger or more
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00156601-v:
become bigger or greater in amount
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05098942-n:
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
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05125377-n:
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control
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13779032-n:
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
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00844263-a:
(of gases) capable of expansion
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00946499-a:
able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
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01131473-v:
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
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01675352-n:
a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances
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01689811-n:
slim short-limbed lizard having a distinctive fold on each side that permits expansion; of western North America
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02240068-n:
large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs
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02791308-a:
formed with or having saclike expansions
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04408330-n:
any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall
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05101512-n:
the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
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05227079-n:
a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
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05939809-n:
the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
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05986948-n:
a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
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05992949-n:
a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
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06956287-n:
a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
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a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat
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07400906-n:
the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
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07409255-n:
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
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08242100-n:
a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
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08262494-n:
a former political party in the United States; formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads
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a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States
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09247071-n:
(cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter
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11141019-n:
king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
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13479605-n:
the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration
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(cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
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14089719-n:
a severe or even fatal form of vaccinia that occurs mainly in persons with an immunological deficiency; characterized by progressive enlargement of the initial lesion
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14104830-n:
increase in blood pressure in the veins of the portal system caused by obstruction in the liver (often associated with alcoholic cirrhosis), causing enlargement of the spleen and collateral veins
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14242132-n:
a malignant disorder in which there is progressive (but painless) enlargement of lymph tissue followed by enlargement of the spleen and liver
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14481080-n:
the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
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14921414-n:
an alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion; used in tuning forks and measuring tapes and other instruments
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