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Expand vs Ripen - What's the difference?

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Expand is a related term of ripen.


As verbs the difference between expand and ripen

is that expand is (label) to change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one while ripen is to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;.

expand

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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)
  • Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
  • (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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
  • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=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 […].”}}
  • (label) To feel generous or optimistic.
  • Synonyms

    * open out, spread, spread out, unfold * enlarge * (to express at length or in detail) elaborate (on), expand on

    Antonyms

    * contract * contract * factor

    Derived terms

    * expandable * expander

    ripen

    English

    (Ripening)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
  • Grapes ripen in the sun.
  • * 1918 , (John Muir), Steep Trails Chapter XII
  • *:...the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
  • To approach or come to perfection.
  • To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
  • To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
  • When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton.

    Derived terms

    * ripening