Expanding

Definition: Expanding

Expanding

Adjective

1. Increasing in area or volume or bulk or range; "an expanding universe"; "an expanding economy".

Date "expanding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: Expanding

English words defined with "expanding": beating, Bell-mouthed ♦ development, dilatation, dilation, distension, distention ♦ Elastic fluids, Expander, Expanding pulley, expanding upon, Expansion curve, expansionism, extension ♦ Florescent, French horn, Funnelform ♦ Hoop skirt, Hypocraterimorphous ♦ Intumescent ♦ lebensraum, Lithophyse, living space ♦ magnification, Minie ball ♦ planetary nebula, pulsating, pulsing ♦ Sea trumpet, Sitter, Solar engine, stretching ♦ thunder ♦ Wheel-shaped, Willem de Sitter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "expanding": BELL REAMER, belling machine operator, blasting agent ♦ centrifugal fan, combustor, Cosmic rays, CRATE OPENER ♦ draft tube, Dynamite ♦ European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH, expanding arbor, expanding electrode test, EXPANDING MACHINE OPERATOR, expanding mandrel, expanding reamer, expanding waterway, explanding, explosively expanding ♦ GAS-MAIN FITTER, gas-turbine engine, general perturbations ♦ Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994, higher-order macro, hot air gallery ♦ Intel 8086, Intersil 6100 ♦ m4, médecin traitant, machine riveter, mineral wedging, multiple-expansion engine ♦ Parshall flume, Parshall measuring flume, Program Development, project development coordinator ♦ Rapid Application Development, rivet-hammer-machine operator, RIVETING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Rodio-Dehottay process ♦ STIRLING ENGINE, SUPERVISOR, MILL HOUSE ♦ technical operations specialis, TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST, Trade Act of 1974, turbo-jet ♦ underreamer bit, underreaming bit, United States Department of Agriculture ♦ volute pumps ♦ Washer Woman, water blast, water infusion gun. (references)

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Modern Usage: Expanding

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The only way to control them, and only temporarily, is through certain mind expanding compounds (hands a pill to Sal). (Film School Confidential; writing credit: Douglas Underdahl)
Lyrics	Of the expanding the man (Deacon Blues; performing artist: STEELY DAN)
Movie/TV Titles	The Expanding Airport (1958)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Expanding

Domain	Title
Books	Soul-Centered Astrology: A Key to Your Expanding Self (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Viewfinder : Expanding Boundaries And Perspectives In Special Education (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Expanding Universe Series (reference) The Outer Limits, Vol. 36: Expanding Human (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Expanding Senses (reference) Green Crystal Ties, Vol. 4: Mind Expanding Psychedelia (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Compaq Ipaq Expanding Blacknylon Case (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Expanding

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Photo Album: Expanding

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An Expanding Bubble in Space.Credit: NASA.		Expanding its broadcast universe far beyond the Baltimore area and into cyberspace, the ...Credit: NASA.
	NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas surrounding ...Credit: NASA.		Building a new army camp at top speed. Now camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the many thousands of American and Canadian troops now arriving. The work is done by civilian.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Building a new Army camp at top speed. Now camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the thousands of United States of America and Canadian troops now arriving. The work done by.Credit: Library of Congress.		Building a new Army camp at top speed. New camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the thousands of U.S. and Canadian troops now arriving. The work is done by civilian contract.Credit: Library of Congress.
	FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project seen from the acreage of an old homestead which will be included in the expanding home village of the Hercules Powder Company workers. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.		Streets of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense workers village are broad and well paved, ample for the traffic of this rapidly expanding housing project. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Rented house which will be torn down to make way for homes for defense workers of the expanding FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project of Radford, Virginia. From nine days to as little as four days notice has been given to tenants and landhold.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Expanding

Author	Quotation
Peter De Vries	Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Expanding

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Expanding

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Research on drugs for treating impotence is expanding rapidly. (references)
		Sleep research is expanding and attracting more and more attention from scientists. (references)
		C. Expanding access to investigational cancer therapies that have been approved in other countries. (references)
Business		The intrusion detection products are expanding. (references)
		The Chinese timber import market is expanding enormously. (references)
		These stores are becoming extremely popular and are expanding. (references)
Children	Korea	The Commission also announced that it was expanding the definition of "entertainment establishment" to include facilities, such as restaurants and cafes, where children sometimes were hired illegally as prostitutes. (references)
Civil Liberties	Papua New Guinea	A privately owned radio network, NAU-FM, is popular in Port Moresby and is expanding to other areas of the country. (references)
	Vietnam	In general religious groups faced difficulty in obtaining teaching materials, expanding training facilities, publishing religious materials, and expanding the clergy in training in response to the increased demand from congregations; the Government regulates the number of clergy that the Buddhist, Catholic, Hoa Hao, and Cao Dai churches officially may train. (references)
Economic History	Russia	Food processing also has been expanding. (references)
	Sweden	Direct marketing is expanding in Sweden. (references)
	Qatar	Bilateral relations are cordial and expanding. (references)
Human Rights	Morocco	On April 13, the King issued a decree expanding the CCDH's mandate to allow it to investigate cases on its own initiative. (references)
	Ukraine	However, in March 2000, the Court ruled that the President's proposed referendum on expanding presidential authority was constitutional, although it threw out two of the six original questions. (references)
	Switzerland	Some nongovernmental organizations (NGO's) have claimed that prisons were overcrowded, but the Government has taken measures to improve prison conditions and address overcrowding by expanding the number of detention facilities. (references)
Political Economy	Mexico	Civil society activity is rapidly expanding throughout Mexico. (references)
	COLOMBIA	Nevertheless, Colombia's extensive and expanding informal economy remains effectively outside government control. (references)
	BOLIVIA	Bolivia's commitments under GATS are modest, although its liberalization efforts have established the bases for expanding them. (references)
Political Rights	Philippines	In August a plebiscite was held on the question of expanding the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). (references)
	Bolivia	In July the Congress elected a new CNE, expanding its number from five to seven judges, declared the departmental electoral court positions vacant, and instructed the CNE to select new departmental electoral court judges and modify the Electoral Code so that head departmental electoral judges are selected by congressional vote. (references)
Trade	France	The recognition and use of ISO 9000 in France is expanding at a very fast pace. (references)
Travel	Slovak Rep	Other data communication services (e-mail, Internet) are quickly expanding throughout the country. (references)
Worker Rights	Uruguay	Some children work as street vendors in the expanding informal sector or in the agrarian sector, which generally are regulated less strictly and where pay is lower. (references)
	Guatemala	After substantially expanding the size of the inspector corps in 2000, the Ministry of Labor increased its rate of inspections and fired some incompetent or corrupt inspectors. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Expanding

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Conan O'Brien	Really, don't get me wrong. I'm very proud that I have a network special, but we still have to remember that cable is expanding and they've got some great channels, too.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Expanding

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	With Russia, Austria, Prussia, Naples, Sweden, and Denmark the best understanding exists, and our commercial intercourse is gradually expanding itself with them.
James Buchanan	1857-1861	We at present enjoy a free trade throughout our extensive and expanding country such as the world has never witnessed.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	This Administration is expanding its Food-for-Peace Program in every possible way.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Army Corps of Engineers has also undertaken studies to assess the feasibility of expanding the Bonneville Locks.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	By expanding trade, we can advance the cause of freedom and democracy around the world.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Our trade with other nations is expanding, bringing lower prices that come from imports, and better jobs that come from exports.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Expanding

"Expanding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.45% of the time. "Expanding" is used about 1,014 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	76.45%	775	8,892
Adjective (general or positive)	21.67%	220	20,356
Noun (proper)	1.18%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	0.69%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	1,014	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Expanding

Expressions using "expanding": expanding arbor ♦ Expanding bit ♦ Expanding drill ♦ expanding mandrel ♦ expanding market ♦ Expanding pulley ♦ expanding town ♦ expanding upon ♦ explosively expanding. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "expanding": ever-expanding, fast-expanding, mind-expanding.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Expanding

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
expanding foam	37	expanding grants.html sba.gov	4
the expanding universe	22	expanding mind	4
belly expanding	21	belly expanding pic	4
expanding	20	acceleration expanding universe	3
expanding knowledge market metal mineral world	13	dhtml expanding menu	3
expanding your horizon	13	capital expanding finance provide small	3
expanding collets	11	java script expanding menu	3
expanding file	10	expanding foam polyurethane	3
expanding foam insulation	9	expanding gate	3
expanding breast	8	expanding insulation wall	3
boob expanding	8	columbia crew expanding universe	3
expanding mandrels	7	evidence expanding universe	3
expanding vocabulary	7	tube expanding	3
belly expanding picture pregnancy	7	electromagnetic expanding seti spectrum universe	3
expanding menu	7	expanding tit	3
expanding business	6	expanding light	2
arbor expanding	5	belly expanding pregnant	2
expanding file folder	5	expanding horizon msn	2
expanding its program reseller	4	abroad benefit expanding	2
expanding folder	4	expanding memory memory stream while	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Expanding

Language		Translations for "expanding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		扩展 (Expand, Expanded, Expansion). (various references)

Danish		voksende. (various references)

Dutch		ontluikend. (various references)

Finnish		avautuva. (various references)

French		expansion (expansion, mandibular expansion), en cours de croissance, croissance (expansion). (various references)

German		ausdehnend (distending). (various references)

Greek		εκπτυσσόμενο. (various references)

Hungarian		táguló palástú dugattyú (expanding-skirt piston). (various references)

Italian		estensivo (extensive). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		拡大均衡 (an expanded or expanding equilibrium). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かく� いき�"�"う (an expanded or expanding equilibrium). (various references)

Korean		확장 (Broadening, Expansion). (various references)

Manx		yn-sheeyney (dilatable, ductile, extensible; ductility). (various references)

Pig Latin		expandingay

Portuguese		em crescimento, gerenciador de expansão de memória (Emmet). (various references)

Russian		расширять расширение расширяющийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji se širi (diffluent, spreading). (various references)

Spanish		expansible (expansible), en expansión, dilatable (dilatable, distensible, malleable). (various references)

Swedish		veckla ut sig. (various references)

Turkish		genişleyen (expansive, sprawling, widening, yawning), büyüyen (growing, sprawling, thriving, yawning). (various references)

Ukranian		що розширю�"ться (dilative), що зроста�". (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Expanding

Derivations
	Words ending with "expanding": overexpanding. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Expanding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: expansing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Expanding"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "expanding" (pronounced ikspa"nding)
5	-a" n d i ng	banding, branding, commanding, demanding, disbanding, handing, landing, misunderstanding, notwithstanding, outstanding, sanding, standing, stranding, understanding, withstanding.
4	-n d i ng	abounding, amending, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, bending, binding, blending, blinding, bonding, bounding, commending, compounding, comprehending, condescending, confounding, contending, corresponding, defending, defunding, depending, descending, ending, expending, expounding, extending, fending, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, hounding, impending, intending, lending, longstanding, masterminding, mending, minding, misspending, nonbinding, offending, outspending, overextending, overfunding, overspending, pending, portending, pounding, pretending, rebounding, recommending, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sending, sounding, spellbinding, spending, surrounding, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, unending, unwinding, upstanding, vending, wending, winding, wounding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Expanding

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-n-p-x"
	-2 letters: deaning, pending.
	-3 letters: ending, expand, gained, ginned, pained, panged, pangen, panned, penang, pennia, pinang, pinged, pinnae, pinned.
	-4 letters: annex, aping, axing, deign, dinge, gaped, genip, inane, index, inned, nixed, paged, paned, panne, penna, penni, pined, pinna, xenia.
	-5 letters: aged, agin, aide, aped, apex, axed, dang, dean, deni, dine, ding, egad, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-n-p-x"
	+4 letters: overexpanding.
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