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Meaning of विस्तार in English

  • of Broaden
  • That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
  • That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.
  • A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
  • A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
  • The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
  • To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
  • To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
  • The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
  • The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
  • Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
  • To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
  • To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
  • To set at large or set free.
  • To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
  • To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
  • To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
  • of Enlarge
  • To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
  • 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.
  • To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
  • 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.
  • of Expand
  • The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
  • That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
  • Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
  • Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.
  • The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
  • The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
  • The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
  • To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
  • To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.
  • To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
  • To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
  • To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.
  • To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.
  • To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
  • of Extend
  • The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
  • That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
  • Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
  • The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
  • The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
  • A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
  • To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
  • To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
  • Same as Exanthema.
  • Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.
  • Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
  • That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.
  • To expand.
  • The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.
  • Expansible.
  • Expanse.
  • The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
  • Unlimited extension.
  • The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
  • An overflow, or overflowing abundance.
  • The act of counting in duration; prolongation.
  • The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign.

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