Expand vs Flaunt - What's the difference?
expand | flaunt | Related terms |
(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
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(label) To feel generous or optimistic.
(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
To parade, display with ostentation.
(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
* Arbuthnot
* Alexander Pope
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Expand is a related term of flaunt.
As verbs the difference between expand and flaunt
is that expand is (label) to change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one while flaunt is (obsolete) to wave or flutter smartly in the wind.expand
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
Synonyms
* open out, spread, spread out, unfold * enlarge * (to express at length or in detail) elaborate (on), expand onAntonyms
* contract * contract * factorDerived terms
* expandable * expanderflaunt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
- You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
- One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
- [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
- … and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.