Expansion vs Expatriate - What's the difference?
expansion | expatriate |
The act or process of expanding.
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
A new addition.
A product to be used with a previous product.
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
* Beattie
(steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
* an expatriate mailing list
One who lives outside one’s own country.
One who has been banished from one’s own country.
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
To withdraw from one’s native country.
To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
As nouns the difference between expansion and expatriate
is that expansion is expansion while expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country.As an adjective expatriate is
of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.As a verb expatriate is
to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.expansion
English
Noun
- The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
- My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
- This expansion requires the original game board.
- the starred expansion of the skies