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Verb
( en verb)
(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
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(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
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* (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.
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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.
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(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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, 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
Related terms
* expanse
* expansible
* expansile
* expansive
* expansion
* expansionism
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wide English
Adjective
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Having a large physical extent from side to side.
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Large in scope.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders
, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
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(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
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On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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* Spenser
- Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
* Massinger
- I was but two bows wide .
(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
Remote; distant; far.
* Hammond
- the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
* Milton
- our wide expositors
* Latimer
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
* Herbert
- How wide is all this long pretence!
(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.
- a wide''' character; a '''wide stream
Antonyms
* narrow (regarding empty area)
* thin (regarding occupied area)
* skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)
Related terms
* widely
* widen
* wideness
* widescale
* width
* wide awake
* wide of the mark
* wide open
* wide receiver
* wide shot
* wide-angle
* wide-eyed
* widescreen
* widespread
* worldwide
Adverb
( er)
extensively
- He travelled far and wide .
completely
- He was wide awake.
away from a given goal
- The arrow fell wide of the mark.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Sam Sheringham
, title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton
, work=BBC
citation
, page=
, passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.}}
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
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Noun
( en noun)
(cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
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