"expand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

expand verbo

expand + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 160
expand opportunities • expand one's business • expand one's operations • expand one's services • expand one's range • ...
verbo + expand
Kolokacji: 50
begin expanding • help expand • continue expand • plan to expand • seek to expand • continue to expand • hope to expand • ...
expand + preposición
Kolokacji: 44
expand into • expand beyond • expand upon • expand throughout • expanded since • ...
expand + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 82
expand rapidly • greatly expand • further expand • significantly expand • gradually expand • eventually expand • quickly expand • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(4) significantly, easily
Kolokacji: 2
(5) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(7) steadily, quietly, wildly
Kolokacji: 3
(8) aggressively, sharply
Kolokacji: 2
(10) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(12) northward, northwards
Kolokacji: 2
(13) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(14) massively, extensively
Kolokacji: 2
(15) fully, sufficiently
Kolokacji: 2
(17) horizontally, vertically
Kolokacji: 2
  • A fault line expands horizontally, reaching out across to the jutting cliffs which flank the grand slope.
  • Since the area could not expand horizontally, the Jews built vertical additions to their houses, which blocked the sun from reaching the already dank and narrow streets.
  • The town has been expanding horizontally mostly adjacent to the main roads.
  • Each panel expands horizontally, drawer-like, to reveal more details when clicked.
  • The heat of flight would have caused a smooth skin to split or curl, but the corrugated skin could expand vertically and horizontally.
  • Expanding horizontally was out of the question, particularly if it involved felling trees.
  • Canna rhizomes expand horizontally with near-obscene enthusiasm, so no matter which way you winter yours it will need dividing in spring.
  • The high ceilings were designed to allow explosions to rise high before hitting the ceiling and being forced to expand horizontally.
  • The stolon is commonly found in bread molds, and are seen as horizontally expanding across the mold.
  • This resulted in the city expanding horizontally, unlike other metropolitan cities where vertical growth is prominent.
2. expand vertically = rozwiń pionowo expand vertically

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