expand

/ɪkˈspænd/

意味: 拡大する

例文: Momo’s territory expanded into kitchen.
　　  モモの領地がキッチンに拡大。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: expand knowledge(知識を広げる), expand business(事業を拡大する), expand universe(宇宙を拡大する)

定義: 何かを大きくしたり広げたりすること。例えば、面積や範囲を広げることや、情報や知識を増やすことを指します。物理的な大きさだけでなく、抽象的な概念にも使われます。

expandは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: extend in one or more directions
Verb: become larger in size or volume or quantity
Verb: make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
Verb: grow vigorously
Verb: exaggerate or make bigger
Verb: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Verb: expand the influence of

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

We plan to expand our business next year.(私たちは来年ビジネスを拡大する予定です。)
The company will expand its product line soon.(会社はまもなく製品ラインを拡充します。)
Her knowledge continues to expand every day.(彼女の知識は毎日広がり続けています。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The dough expands
Verb: his business expanded rapidly
Verb: expand the house by adding another wing
Verb: The deer population in this town is thriving
Verb: business is booming
Verb: The charges were inflated
Verb: She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
Verb: The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): amplify, blow up, boom, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, extend, flesh out, flourish, inflate, lucubrate, spread out, thrive

Antonyms(反意語): contract

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, clarify, enlarge, grow, increase

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, augment, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blow up, blunt, blur, boil, boom, boost, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, build up, burgeon, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deepen, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demystify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, disambiguate, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, elaborate, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enlarge, equal, eroticize, escalate, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, expand, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, heighten, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, hypertrophy, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, kite, laicize, legitimate, lend, lengthen, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, maximize, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, multiply, mushroom, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, overgrow, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, professionalize, proliferate, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, raise, ramify, rarefy, rationalize, ream, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, relax, remodel, restore, rev up, revolutionize, right, ripen, rise, romanticize, root, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, stretch, string, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, up, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, vegetate, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): balloon, bush out, detail, develop, dispread, exemplify, inflate, luxuriate, puff up, revive, set forth, specify, swell

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: boom, dilation, elaboration, enlargement, expandible, expansible, expansion, expansive, expatiation, exponent, exposition, expository, expounding, lucubration

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, education

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): ex

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: