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Reduced vs Expanded - What's the difference?

reduced | expanded |

As verbs the difference between reduced and expanded

is that reduced is (reduce) while expanded is (expand).

As an adjective reduced

is made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.

reduced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reduce)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
  • Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price
  • In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
  • chicken served with a reduced red wine sauce.

    expanded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (expand)

  • 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