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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expand
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a company grows/expands
▪ The company has expanded year on year.
an industry grows/expands
▪ The clothing industry grew rapidly during the 1960s.
broaden/expand sb’s horizons
▪ a course of study that will broaden your horizons
broaden/expand your knowledge (=increase your knowledge)
▪ The course is designed to help students broaden their knowledge of modern American literature.
develop/expand the economy
▪ The tax cut should help to expand the economy.
expand/improve your vocabulary (also enrich your vocabularyformal)
▪ Reading helps to expand your vocabulary.
extend/expand the scope of sth
▪ They may extend the scope of the project.
rapidly growing/changing/expanding etc
▪ the rapidly changing world of technology
the economy develops/expands/grows (=becomes more successful)
▪ The economy grew by 3% last year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
greatly
▪ In December 1990 the already extensive presidential powers were greatly expanded with the creation of a new state leadership structure.
▪ In California and Florida, state funding and technical assistance for career academies have greatly expanded the number of such programs statewide.
▪ By 1958 much trade discrimination had been eliminated, and both production and the volume of trade had greatly expanded.
▪ And our sociological horizons have greatly expanded.
▪ This has been greatly expanded to provide a deeper experience for visitors.
▪ The bar scene greatly expanded in the seventies as well.
▪ The powers of the Federal government were greatly expanded.
▪ We present twelve different categories of these, but the number could be greatly expanded.
rapidly
▪ Where internet trading will continue to expand rapidly is in business-to-business transactions.
▪ Since the I950s, world trade has expanded rapidly, driving incomes higher along the way.
▪ The story starts in the middle of the last century when Darlington was expanding rapidly.
▪ She added to his rapidly expanding jewelry collection.
▪ Peterborough is expanding rapidly as a New Town.
▪ The benefit has been expanding rapidly since a 1989 lawsuit forced the government to ease requirements for coverage.
▪ The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time.
▪ And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Funding is being sought to allow the network to expand its outreach activities.
▪ During his senior year, Jeff is expanding his activities.
▪ At the centre of these events was the announcement that Sellafield wanted to expand its activities.
▪ In western countries, in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.
▪ But the zemstvos in particular rapidly expanded their activities during the ensuing decades.
▪ Many of these companies may also benefit from economies of scale as they expand into such activities.
▪ It was a close-knit community with no ambition to expand its interests and activities.
▪ Up to the infamous Distillers bid, Saunders did much to revive the brewing group's fortunes and expand its activities.
area
▪ Furthermore, training provision is being expanded into areas such as International Trade and Management.
▪ Huizenga plans to expand into the areas of electronic security and billboard advertising.
▪ Cashline has recently been expanded into new areas of operation, including airports, shopping centres, supermarkets and petrol stations.
▪ As the medical establishment tightened its monopoly on diagnosis and prescription, it also expanded the area under its control.
▪ The possibility of expanding into other areas outside canoeing is also being considered.
▪ Future plans include expanding their service area to include South Dakota, Wisconsin and Montana.
▪ He expanded the area of cut grass to encircle nearer trees - this was his own idea and it pleased him hugely.
▪ Telephone experience, especially in the expanding call centre area, is valued.
base
▪ From a small, localised clientele, the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick.
▪ So, too, they can be eroded by others who seek to expand their own bases of power.
▪ Therefore, will he use all the influence of his Department to expand the shrinking manufacturing base of Britain?
▪ When times are hard, more people apply to be representatives and Betterware expands its distribution base.
business
▪ The business continued to expand, and a high sport occurred when the King himself opened an account in 1800.
▪ But how long can the coffee retail business continue to expand?
▪ And there are other more mature markets in which our business can be expanded further.
▪ But outside the studio, his control of Ray Charles as business commodity expanded.
▪ The first three years went well and the business continued to expand.
▪ We hope your business needs to expand.
▪ The split also will free the other businesses to expand at a quicker pace, giving them what Dun&038;.
capacity
▪ Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers.
▪ Chellam also said the memory-chip maker will expand production capacity more than 40 percent this year.
▪ A bladder which is frequently emptied does not expand to its full capacity and needs gentle stretching to bring this about.
▪ Officials say they will expand glyphosate capacity by about 50 % over the next three years.
▪ Its expanded capacity could provide enough water for an additional 1 million Phoenix-area residents, experts say.
▪ Satellite communications have recently expanded the capacity of governments to use the media to communicate with other governments.
company
▪ So, when a company first looks to expand abroad, the same process needs to be adopted.
▪ But after his retirement, Alsop &038; Company managers sought to expand the business through speculation.
▪ From a small, localised clientele, the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick.
▪ The company also is expanding into the cellular phone business.
▪ Mr Lessard says he is not looking to sell the company and would rather expand Metro beyond the province's borders.
▪ The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
▪ A company may expand by increasing the share capital and the number of directors.
economy
▪ Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year.
▪ A national economy that is expanding without creating inflationary pressures that would force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
▪ The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time.
▪ All this changes drastically in industrial societies, where the economy is perpetually expanding.
▪ Its economy is rapidly expanding, partly thanks to its many natural resources and its enormous reserves of hydro-electric energy.
▪ Thereafter, however, the economy expanded considerably.
effort
▪ Virtuoso trombonist he is not, though his efforts to expand the instrument's profile must be admired.
▪ Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
▪ After 1972 the semi-autonomous administration made efforts to rehabilitate and expand the system.
▪ Serious efforts are made to expand the labor force.
▪ It was a mighty effort to expand and complete a process of reform that had its roots in the New Deal.
▪ Many authorities were making a conscious effort to expand the social group from which their secondary pupils were drawn.
firm
▪ Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers.
▪ A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices.
▪ The size and the number of actuarial firms is expanding rapidly in response to the demand for their services.
▪ As the two firms expanded they inevitably found themselves close to each other's turf.
▪ Note that the ability of firms to expand output in this situation depends upon the existence of unemployed resources in the economy.
▪ Whether by some form of contract or by increasing local capital, firms can continue expanding their economic involvement.
▪ Also, as owning firms have expanded they have diversified and have found themselves in competition with their consortium offspring.
▪ Many are firms that expanded and invested with no expectation of 15 percent. interest rates.
horizon
▪ You might have some fun, make new friends, expand your own personal horizons.
▪ Art escaped his kin to expand his horizons, so he knows exactly what drove Mark away.
▪ His mission in life is to expand the horizons of those around him.
▪ And it will expand her horizons.
▪ This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons.
▪ Like millions of other women around the world, she has learned that work outside the home has expanded her horizons.
▪ Try to find a copy if you are considering expanding your horizons.
▪ Another possible use of video in a training programme is to trigger new ideas and expand trainees' horizons.
industry
▪ It is important that the people are involved, because the industry itself is expanding at an extraordinary rate.
▪ Will the industry expand or contract?
▪ We must be prepared to adapt as some industries and occupations expand and others contract.
▪ Both of our conditions therefore say that trade is beneficial if on average the output of highly monopolized industries expands.
▪ When the industry is expanding and labour is scarce, management will obviously have less control over productivity.
▪ Stimulated by technological progress, the cotton industry expanded more and more.
▪ From 1950 the chemical industry expanded quickly with the use of oil both as raw material and as fuel.
▪ As the partial equilibrium analysis suggested, a procompetitive effect, with monopolistic industries expanding, is expected from trade.
market
▪ Instead the market has expanded, giving all operators the opportunity to make a profit.
▪ As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.
▪ According to the company, the market is expanding fast: three-quarters of its sales were made in the past 18 months.
▪ If the food market expands, they reason, it could reduce the need to spray crops with harmful pesticides.
▪ But why did they choose to build on their own valuable market places instead of expanding outwards into suburbs?
▪ These adjustments carry through to the resource market as expanding industries demand more resources and contracting industries demand fewer.
network
▪ Proceeds will be used to expand existing networks and to build new ones, the company said.
▪ The best social principle to follow may be to build the enterprise upon existing and expanding social networks.
▪ The idea is to expand its network business for the international arena, especially the telecommunications market.
▪ The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
▪ Docherty declined to say how much the companies are investing together in expanding the network.
number
▪ Degrees such as media studies have enjoyed huge growth as universities have expanded the number of places to meet ambitious government targets.
▪ In California and Florida, state funding and technical assistance for career academies have greatly expanded the number of such programs statewide.
▪ It is certainly encouraging that parents, not government, are choosing to expand the number of integrated schools in the Province.
▪ Have physicians' fees fallen relative to other prices in response to the growing competition among the rapidly expanding numbers of physicians?
▪ The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.
▪ With growing demand, Mike could exercise exchange leverage over an expanding number of people ready to change.
▪ It is clear that it could be borne only if society itself were expanding in wealth and numbers.
▪ Quality, creativity, and originality do not expand automatically as the number of outlets increases.
operation
▪ It is investing heavily in research and development, and is expanding its marketing operation this year.
▪ Offsetting that, homebuilder Crossman Communities Inc. said it would expand its Columbus operations.
▪ In the years that followed it expanded operations without seeking local approval, earning little goodwill in Guadalcazar.
▪ Twinlab and Rexall both have expanded operations in recent months.
▪ Hence, the trucking companies have expanded their operations.
▪ After the Watts rebellion, Johnsoh asked Hoover to expand his intelligence operations to include riot prediction.
opportunity
▪ But as internet opportunities expand it is coming into its own.
▪ It is an opportunity to expand the responsibilities of John Langley, an up-and-coming salesman getting some great results in the north.
▪ The Great Exhibition of 1851 brought him an excellent opportunity to expand his business and he seized it with relish.
▪ It also offers the ideal opportunity for employees to expand their work experience.
▪ Many labour-only subcontractors have grasped the opportunity to expand initially to a labour and material sub-contractor and subsequently to a general contractor.
▪ This offers you an opportunity to expand the scope of adventuring in the Castle greatly.
▪ I hope, therefore, that it will look at the opportunities for expanding the scheme.
plan
▪ Fierce protests greeted ReChem's recently announced plans to expand near Southampton.
▪ Future plans include expanding their service area to include South Dakota, Wisconsin and Montana.
▪ The business will employ 36 workers at first with plans to expand.
▪ Giddy from their wartime success, the Communists launched an ambitious plan aimed at expanding the economy by 14 percent a year.
▪ The wreck of Braer will not cause the oil industry to ground its plans to expand.
▪ The first phase of the plan involves expanding its existing solar station beside the closed Rancho Seco nuclear plant this year.
▪ That was commissioned to take account of plans to expand the cross-London commuter Thameslink rail service.
▪ Our recently announced plans to significantly expand our hosting infrastructure are moving rapidly.
program
▪ Harley-Davidson is pushing to introduce more people to its products with an expanded rental program.
▪ Proceeds help expand the raptor program, a series of natural hunting and group behavior demonstrations by those ever-gorgeous Harris hawks.
▪ Plans were to expand the program to 300 students by 1997.
▪ Both of these Republican presidents undertook aggressive antitrust actions, and both strongly supported, and expanded, federal housing programs.
▪ President Bush wants to expand the housing program started in 1992, when his father was president.
▪ Plans are to enroll 100 participants from five high schools this summer and then expand the program in future years.
▪ Senate bill would expand the voluntary program to the entire nation for the next three years.
range
▪ The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so.
▪ To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
▪ In this way, the child learns to expand his/ her range of alternative coping strategies.
▪ In fact, though, various developments are expanding the range of public engagement.
▪ The presence of these additional mystical agencies complements the non-mystical causes already examined and thus expands the range of explanation.
▪ Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range, helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
▪ Jez San finds that games consoles are shrinking in size but expanding in range and addictiveness potential..
▪ We're expanding the range, so there's bags of variation there.
rate
▪ It is important that the people are involved, because the industry itself is expanding at an extraordinary rate.
▪ M3 expanded at an annual rate of 1. 9 percent in the first 11 months of 1995.
▪ All this is perhaps inevitable in a subject which is expanding at the rate of around 1000 research publications a year.
▪ London expanded at a remarkable rate.
▪ The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate.
▪ Branson, he argued, was attempting to expand at a faster rate than the resources of the company allowed.
▪ It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded.
▪ At that rate the flow of bank lending is, and the money supply is expanding at a corresponding rate.
role
▪ Achieving environmentally-sustainable mobility must include an expanded role for public transport, and requires many kinds of action.
▪ Encourage women to play expanded roles in their communities?
▪ The role of the teacher could be expanded to encompass the role of researcher.
▪ These are not encouraging recommendations for expanding the role of public opinion in major decision making about affairs of state.
▪ Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them.
▪ Republicans were suspicious about what they saw as an expanding role for the government.
▪ Eleven years ago I wrote to the then President of our Institute making the case for expanding the role of the Institute.
▪ This new and expanded role for employees will exert enormous pressures on employees and companies alike to invest in education and retraining.
scope
▪ Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery.
▪ As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.
▪ He might have expanded the scope of this intriguing remark.
▪ By 1996 the strategy had succeeded in significantly expanding the scope of school-to-work in Tulsa.
▪ Beto continued the policy but expanded the scope of inmate productivity to include building on a large scale.
▪ This offers you an opportunity to expand the scope of adventuring in the Castle greatly.
▪ The remaining seven chapters, many of which have been introduced in the second edition, considerably expand the scope of coverage.
service
▪ When the war began the civil service was expanded to cope with a multitude of new tasks.
▪ Later, Daley would shrink civil service and expand the patronage army.
▪ There is sometimes a tendency for a generalist service to expand into specialisms with which it is in daily contact.
▪ At the same time, health and welfare services will have to expand for a growing and aging population.
▪ So the role of the civil service expands not merely because ministers are overwhelmed with work but because Parliament is also.
system
▪ The most difficult part of the Boards' programme of expanding the distribution system was in rural areas.
▪ He hopes to expand the existing tram system that ferries visitors from outlying parking lots to key spots through out the park.
▪ And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
▪ Consider how easy it is to expand the system both in terms of users and in terms of extra facilities.
▪ The immediate need is to expand the entire system.
▪ The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
universe
▪ This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting.
▪ The same can be said of the postmodern discovery that the universe is expanding.
▪ That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding.
▪ But as the universe expanded, the temperature of the radiation decreased.
▪ And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands?
▪ The new simulations, it is claimed, show that instead the universe will go on expanding for ever.
▪ In the present epoch the systematic red shift of galactic spectra indicates that the Universe is expanding.
▪ Will the universe eventually stop expanding and start contracting, or will it expand for ever?
■ VERB
allow
▪ Funding is being sought to allow the network to expand its outreach activities.
▪ However, be sure the gap is wide enough to allow the wood to expand and contract.
▪ Rather, the best argument for privatisation is that it would allow the railways to expand their services.
▪ But that method would not allow Texas to expand its Medicaid program.
▪ Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them.
▪ The electricity can then be regenerated by allowing the air to expand in a turbine.
▪ Popular schools will be allowed to expand, and more schools will be able to apply for technology funding.
▪ This soft filling is intended to allow the fire-back to expand under the fierce heat without cracking.
begin
▪ The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.
▪ The problem began to expand to levels at once more profound and absurd.
▪ The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
▪ Broadcasts to a limited audience begin today, while expanded programming starts on April 15.
▪ The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate.
▪ Within hours the bubble had begun to expand and rise, sucking in the surrounding air.
▪ Gradually, the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful.
▪ The soul begins to expand, the blood begins to flow more sweetly in your veins.
continue
▪ This was on entirely modern lines and has continued to expand right up to the present time.
▪ But how long can the coffee retail business continue to expand?
▪ Where internet trading will continue to expand rapidly is in business-to-business transactions.
▪ Freedom of movement and economic choice and even in some ways commentary have continued to expand.
▪ We will continue to expand higher education and training.
▪ However, it is continuing to expand its in-store banking centers, which are a lower-cost way to deliver financial services.
▪ Whether by some form of contract or by increasing local capital, firms can continue expanding their economic involvement.
▪ Building after building, the Puzzle Palace continued to expand its empire.
expect
▪ The public-sector deficit was expected to expand from 33,900 million pesos in 1989 to at least 55,100 million by the end of 1990.
▪ And existing child care programs are expected to expand.
▪ He can well afford extravagances and is expected to expand his art collection still further.
▪ It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative.
▪ Currently, some 450 intermediaries are linked to the service and this is expected to expand.
▪ They expect to expand at the expense not of each other but of traditional restaurants.
help
▪ It also helps students to expand and develop vocabulary, which is one of the key needs at this level.
▪ But far more volunteers are needed to help the hospice expand it's reach.
▪ Volunteers are still needed to help the hospice expand its current home sitter service.
▪ However, modernisation will help to expand the programme further, including film shows, shadow puppetry and matinees - presently impracticable.
▪ This would help expand Moby's loyalties and prevent him from becoming too dependent on his main daytime companion.
▪ Computers will help expand personal creativity, too.
hope
▪ Sparc Technology will also sell Sun system designs, hoping to expand indirectly into the portable, X terminal and embedded markets.
▪ He hopes to expand the existing tram system that ferries visitors from outlying parking lots to key spots through out the park.
▪ It is then hoped to expand its use to other joint surgery which requires precision drilling.
▪ Officials hope to expand the effort to the San Antonio Zoo this year.
▪ Your reactions are important as we hope to expand our range of environmentally-friendly goods in future offers.
▪ Murdoch said he hopes to expand beyond what those two companies offer and use satellites for data transmissions via computers.
▪ John Lewis hopes to expand its range to include 2500 items by autumn 2001.
seek
▪ First, the agency may seek to expand a given government programme by systematically overstating the benefits or understating the costs.
▪ But after his retirement, Alsop &038; Company managers sought to expand the business through speculation.
▪ Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry.
▪ So, too, they can be eroded by others who seek to expand their own bases of power.
▪ Competition between love of words and of the world they seek to represent expands in Ulysses.
▪ Corporations involved in the escalating race to acquire media properties seek not only expanded profitability but also increasing influence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dr. Martin also helped expand housing opportunities for people with AIDs.
▪ Heat makes the gas in the container expand.
▪ Medical insurance companies expanded rapidly during the 1980s.
▪ Metals expand when they are heated.
▪ Pepsi has aggressive plans to expand overseas.
▪ She intends to expand the company's operations in the US.
▪ The agency hopes to expand coverage of new musical talent on its Internet site.
▪ The business was growing rapidly and beginning to expand abroad.
▪ The population of Texas expanded rapidly in the '60s.
▪ The sports and leisure market is expanding more quickly than ever before.
▪ The universe is constantly expanding.
▪ The university is planning to expand the number of students to over 20,000.
▪ They fund programs that expand health benefits to wider segments of the community.
▪ Trade between developing countries and industrialized countries is beginning to expand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Domestication of new animals for their products will probably expand to meet the demands no longer met from wild stock.
▪ Gradually, the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful.
▪ New Historicism's usual response to this is to expand on Montrose's point about the inevitability of critical partiality existing.
▪ The 1980s saw the romance movement expand and change directions somewhat.
▪ The containers are made of peat and wood fiber laced with soluble fertilizer and peat pellets that expand when watered.
▪ The Drugs unit aims to expand pupils' knowledge of drugs so that they appreciate that only some drugs are socially acceptable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expand
Expand \Ex*pand"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expanding.] [L. expandere, expansum; ex out + pandere to spread out, to throw open; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. Spawn.]
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
--Milton. 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.
(Math.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
Expand
Expand \Ex*pand"\, 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.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expand
early 15c., "spread out, open out, spread flat, extend widely;" also transitive, "cause to grow larger;" from Anglo-French espaundre, Old French espandre "spread, spread out, be spilled," and directly from Latin expandere "to spread out, unfold, expand," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + pandere "to spread, stretch" (see pace (n.)). Related: Expanded; expanding.
Wiktionary
expand
vb. 1 (label en transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one. 2 (label en transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something). 3 (label en transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail. 4 (label en transitive algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms. 5 (label en transitive arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value 6 (label en intransitive) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one. 7 (label en intransitive) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope. 8 (label en intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
WordNet
expand
v. extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands" [syn: spread out] [ant: shrink]
become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"
make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"
grow stronger; "The economy was booming" [syn: boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish]
exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, amplify]
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expound, dilate] [ant: abridge]
expand the influence of; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent" [syn: extend]
Wikipedia
Expand (Unix)
expand is a program that converts tab characters into groups of space characters, while maintaining correct alignment. It is available in Unix operating systems and many Unix-like operating systems.
For example:
$ echo -e "foo\tbar" | expand | xxd -g 1 -u 0000000: 66 6F 6F 20 20 20 20 20 62 61 72 0A foo bar. $ echo -e "foo\tbar" | xxd -g 1 -u 0000000: 66 6F 6F 09 62 61 72 0A foo.bar. $Here the echo command prints a string of text that includes a tab character, then the output is directed into the expand command. The resulting output is then displayed in hexadecimal and as characters by the xxd dump command. At the second prompt, the same echo output is sent directly to the xxd command. As can be seen by comparing the two, the expand program converts the tab (specified as '\t' to the echo program) into spaces.
Usage examples of "expand".
And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
Kailipso Admin, realizing that it would need to expand quarters to support increased population, got clever--or desperate--or both--and went wooing the big Liaden Guilds, like the Traders and the Pilots, and got them to go in for sector offices on Kailipso.
What you call affectless irony is for me a fabulous adventure, a rush of sexual excitement: a frenzied yet precise exploration of the unimagined depths of cyberspace, and of the expanded dimensions of my skin.
He grew smaller and smaller as the gulf between them expanded, his aimless humming fading until he disappeared altogether.
Since the foldlines were aligned with the spiral arm that contains Sol, humanity found it easiest to expand along the axis of the arm.
I have for many months been using my influence at Washington to get this diplomatic see expanded into an ambassadorship, with the idea, of course th--But never mind.
Roe was the entirely predictable culmination of a long process of articulating and expanding the rights of privacy and reproductive freedom.
I will divulge the first axiom of our trade, which indeed can be expanded to a universal application.
Monsieur Barat went through what was obviously his personal ritualthe adjusting of the metal expanding bands that held up his shirt sleeves, the flexing of fingers, the wiping of his glasses, which he put to one side, the screwing into place of the eyeglass.
But as the supper went on, these rigid republicans began to expand, the discourse became less measured, there were even some bursts of laughter, owing to the wine.
The mind-calming Bene Gesserit regimen his mother had taught him kept him poised, ready to expand any opportunity.
Now Carmen Lunetta, czar of the Port of Miami, wants to expand Bicentennial and adjacent property into a fancy harborage for cruise liners.
Even as Bink watched, one of the lakes expanded slightly, making itself seem cooler and deeper, a better place for a swim.
They seized several star-systems and prepared to expand their conquests, But Brenn Bir, one of the great scientist-kings of the Empire, struck out against them with some fearful power or weapon.
The enemy blob was expanding slowly on the screen as he moved toward the target base.