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      "phonetic": [
        "ɪkˈspænd"
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        "Recorded in Middle English since 1422 (as expanden, expaunden), from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Latin expandere present active infinitive of expandō (“to spread out”), itself from ex- (“out, outwards”) + pandō (“to spread”). Doublet of spawn."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.\nYou can expand this compact umbrella to cover a large table."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).\nA flower expands its leaves.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book I”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.\n1961 October,  “The winter timetables of British Railways: Scottish Region”, in  Trains Illustrated, page 594:This has evidently been encouraging, for the current winter timetable - not even with the benefit of summer holiday traffic - shows that the two trains each way have been expanded to four."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail."
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              "mean": "(transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.\nUse the binomial theorem to expand \n\n\n\n\n\n(\nx\n+\n1\n)\n\n\n4\n\n\n\n\n{\\displaystyle {(x+1)}^{4}}\n\n."
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              "mean": "(intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.\nThe expression \n\n\n\n\n\n(\nx\n+\n1\n)\n\n\n4\n\n\n\n\n{\\displaystyle {(x+1)}^{4}}\n\n expands to \n\n\n\n\nx\n\n4\n\n\n+\n4\n\nx\n\n3\n\n\n+\n6\n\nx\n\n2\n\n\n+\n4\nx\n+\n1\n\n\n{\\displaystyle x^{4}+4x^{3}+6x^{2}+4x+1}\n\n."
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              "mean": "(transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value"
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.\nMany materials expand when heated.\nThis compact umbrella expands to cover a large table."
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope."
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.\nHe expanded on his plans for the business.\n1899,  Stephen Crane,  chapter 1, in  Twelve O'Clock:There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up   ”"
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic."
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