expanding

[Ex*pand·ing]

The verb expand means to make something bigger or wider. It might refer to something concrete, as when you blow into a balloon and make it expand, or something more abstract, as when you study to expand your mind.

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That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

Adjective S.
increasing in area or volume or bulk or range; "an expanding universe"; "an expanding economy"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Expand

a.
That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.


Expanding

Ex*pand"ing, a. That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.

That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

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Usage Examples

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

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