Word Meanings - EXPANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• EXPANSION
  Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes. (more info) 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. 2. That which is expanded; expanse;
• STRETCH
  OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in
• STRETCHER
  A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stretches.
• EXPAND
  To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5. (more info) 1. 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.
• EXPANDING
  That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill , a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley , a pulley so
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• FAR-STRETCHED; FARSTRETCHED
  Stretched beyond ordinary limits.
• FAR-STRETCHED
  Stretched beyond ordinary limits.
• OUTSTRETCH
  To stretch out. Milton.