(v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
(v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
(v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
(v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(3) About 30% of clonable T cells, including both CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8+ cells, could be expanded for assay at an average of 22 days after cloning.
(4) Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand.
(5) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
(6) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
(7) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
(8) The analysis is further expanded to a more general case to result in four criteria based upon the energy concepts.
(9) Guanabenz is acutely natriuretic and diuretic in saline expanded animals.
(10) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(11) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(12) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(13) The expanded tumor-infiltrating cells were Leu-4+ T cells, and in five of six patients the majority were Leu-3+.
(14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(15) Our understanding of the organisation of eye movements has been greatly expanded in recent years, mainly due to studies in animals.
(16) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
(17) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(18) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
(19) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
(20) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
Magnify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
(v. t.) To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.
(v. t.) To praise highly; to land; to extol.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
(v. i.) To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.
(v. i.) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
(2) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
(3) Ordinary details that any mother would recognise have been magnified into major problems.
(4) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(5) In an article for the Daily Telegraph , Obama argued that Britain’s influence in the world was magnified by its membership of the EU.
(6) These data reject the possibility that albino central vision is similar to normal peripheral vision, but the results are predictable on the hypothesis that the central retina of albinos is a spatially magnified (underdeveloped) version of the normal fovea.
(7) On the photographs the pupillary diameter is measured under a magnifying lens.
(8) No significant difference was found comparing spectacle lenses or illuminated stand magnifiers with regard to reading duration.
(9) To determine the incidence of penile condyloma in a group of high risk males, we have performed magnified penile surface scanning and biopsy of suspicious lesions in 51 men.
(10) This is magnified manyfold when the relationship is father and son.
(11) The magnified endoscopic view permits selective exposure of blood vessels and prevents injury to the adjacent organs.
(12) Combination method of magnification consists in the use of the Visolett in addition to a spectacle magnifier, which doubles the magnification.
(13) "The much larger than initially expected economic and fiscal costs of the 11 March earthquake are magnifying the adverse effects imparted by the global financial crisis from which Japan's economy has not completely recovered," Moody's said.
(14) Tensions around the world – when magnified by the media and portrayed as strictly part of a religious binary – sow suspicion in the hearts of even the most open-minded.
(15) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.
(16) Buergenthal is a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the power of his testimony is magnified by a jurist's coolness and eye for detail.
(17) Anterior chamber adapter magnifies the scan for detailed work in the anterior chamber and lens.
(18) The results obtained were as follows: 1) More detailed informations regarding to P waves were obtained by means of the high-speed and magnified ECG.
(19) The gravimetric density was determined for both left and right lungs by averaging the CT numerical data within lung slices traced on a magnified video image of the thorax.
(20) 9.11pm BST A commander of the Free Syrian Army, a key US ally among the opposition, has echoed and magnified Idris' stated opposition to the Russian proposal for dismantling the regime's chemical weapons.