Protracted vs Expanded - What's the difference?
protracted | expanded |
(protract)
Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
(expand)
(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.
*{{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.
As verbs the difference between protracted and expanded
is that protracted is past tense of protract while expanded is past tense of expand.As an adjective protracted
is lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.protracted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a protracted and bitter dispute
expanded
English
Verb
(head)expand
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.