Reduced vs Expanded - What's the difference?
reduced | expanded |
(reduce)
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.
(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.
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, 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 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
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- chicken served with a reduced red wine sauce.
expanded
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Verb
(head)expand
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.