| 单词 | expanse |
| 释义 | expanse (once / 920 pages) n An expanse is a huge area you can look at all at once. If you climb to the top of a mountain, suggest that your fellow climbers take time to admire the expanse of trees below. Expanse looks like the word expand. Both come from the Latin word expandere, meaning "to spread out, unfold." But where did expandere come from? Ex- means "out" and pandere means "spread or stretch." So an expanse is something that seems to unfold before your eyes, or to put it another way, something that stretches out as far as the eye can see. WORD FAMILYexpanse: expanses USAGE EXAMPLESToday, the lake is a vast expanse of salt flats. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) The major difficulty in cheetah conservation is that the animals range across large expanses of terrain, crossing the boundaries of refuges and nations. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) “To cross that expanse was more than crossing the bridge,” Gamboa says. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1n a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky Hypo|Hyper sheet any broad thin expanse or surface stretcha large and unbroken expanse or distance slack, slack watera stretch of water without current or movement space an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) 2n a wide scope Syn|Hyper sweep ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" 3n the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary Syn|Hypo|Hyper area, surface area acreage, land area an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) footprintthe area taken up by some object erasurea surface area where something has been erased blank space, place, spacea blank area spaceone of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff balk, baulkthe area on a billiard table behind the balkline plane section, section(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid marginthe blank space that surrounds the text on a page indent, indentation, indention, indenturethe space left between the margin and the start of an indented line cross sectiona section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis extent the distance or area or volume over which something extends |
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