What's the difference between capacious and expansive?

Capacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
  • (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
  • (2) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
  • (3) Certainly, deploying Kate "she's got the London look" Moss to deliver a sentimental plea to rebellious Scots shows that the Dame has been reading the Danny Boyle, post-Olympic playbook of pluralist, capacious unionism.
  • (4) The endometrial secretions play a major role in the capaciation of spermatozoa, and the nutrition of the blastocyst.
  • (5) Its fibroelastic characteristics allow construction of a capacious and compliant reservoir.
  • (6) Instead there needed to be “a broad church – capacious and generous”.
  • (7) Her review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, in Harper's magazine, accuses him of, among other things, philistinism: "He has turned the full force of his intellect against religion, and all his verbal skills as well, and his humane learning, too, which is capacious enough to include some deeply minor poetry."
  • (8) We are talking in his capacious Whitehall quarters with its fine view over St James's Park, and I pop a fairly obvious question: has he enjoyed the last year?
  • (9) The adverts – mainly for large watches, first-class air travel, portable fine art, tax haven accountants and capacious luggage – deliver a clear subliminal message.
  • (10) Can the mindset of multiculturalism be capacious enough to find a valued place even for those who complain about diversity?
  • (11) It is by definition a plural identity; it is multi-ethnic and that has offered a capaciousness for mass immigration in the 20th century.
  • (12) Since moving out of Downing Street, Blair's London home has been a capacious cream and dark brick terrace in Connaught Square, near Hyde Park, with a substantial mews house behind and armed policemen perpetually guarding both.
  • (13) The most capacious region of the digestive tract was the proximal colon (62-79% of contents).
  • (14) As a consequence of the capacious mobility and great strain, the glenohumeral joint happens to be a frequent site of tenderness or pain.
  • (15) "With an imagination as capacious as that of Hughes, what is there in the life that doesn't feed into the writing?"
  • (16) Giovanni Falcone , his wife Francesca Morvillo and the members of the security detail were killed in an explosion on the motorway near Capaci, 18km far from Palermo.
  • (17) The bowel it utilizes is of secondary importance for intestinal absorption, and the result is a low-pressure, capacious neobladder.
  • (18) Freud had a novelist's capaciousness; Reich was a headline writer.
  • (19) There are also concerns that the guidelines governing the capacious, double atrium newsroom at the £1bn revamped BBC New Broadcasting House headquarters in central London could be affecting safety after two incidents last month where staff were taken ill and required paramedics.
  • (20) Cystometric analysis reveals capacious reservoirs, low basal pressures, and a tendency toward pressure spikes at higher filling volumes.

Expansive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
  • (2) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (3) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (4) Plasma fibrinogen decreased by approximately 7% due to hemodilution caused by plasma volume expansion.
  • (5) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
  • (6) This was accompanied by a greater decrease in hematocrit in the continuous group, a finding that suggests that plasma volume expansion occurred during continuous GTN therapy.
  • (7) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (8) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
  • (9) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
  • (10) The hyperreninemia and hyperaldosteronism were both suppressible with volume expansion.
  • (11) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
  • (12) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (13) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
  • (14) In order to delineate the critical blood flow pattern during the Cushing response in intracranial hypertension, regional cerebral blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres in 12 anesthetized dogs at respiratory arrest caused either by expansion of an epidural supratentorial balloon or by cisternal infusion.
  • (15) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
  • (16) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
  • (17) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
  • (18) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (19) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
  • (20) Subacute lead exposure has been observed to inhibit the natriuretic response to isotonic saline expansion in adult female rats.