(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.
Range
Definition:
(n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
(n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
(n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
(n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
(n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
(n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
(n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
(v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
(v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
(v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
(v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
(v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
(v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
(v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
(v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(v.) A kitchen grate.
(v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
(v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
(v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
(v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
(v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
(v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
(v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
(v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
(v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
(v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
(v.) See Range of cable, below.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(2) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(3) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(4) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(5) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(8) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(9) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(11) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(12) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(13) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(14) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(15) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
(16) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
(17) The technique resolved chromosomes in the size range of 100 kb-1 Mb.
(18) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(19) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(20) The average follow-up was 3.5 years (range 2-5.5 years).