#2 (permalink) Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:48 am Difference between to extend and to expand |
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. Extend comes from the Latin tendere, to stretch; expand comes from Latin pandere, to spread.
In both physical and metaphorical use, extend tends to be used for enlargement along a single axis or in a single direction (my boundary extends from A to B), where expand tends to mean spreading out in many directions (gas expands to fill a vacuum). The latter is the sense meant in this question. . _________________ Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's |
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