Talk:expand

Redundancy

The definitions 5 and 6 appear to be redundant to definitions 1 and 2. --The Evil IP address (talk) 12:08, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

It's just the transitivity which is different, but it can be important enough to split the definitions. But we have tags like {{ambitransitive}} too. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:41, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Programming

The term expand is used in programming. On a tutorial for PHP:

Unlike the double-quoted and heredoc syntaxes, variables and escape sequences for special characters will not be expanded when they occur in single quoted strings.

I really wish there was an explanation about this on this page... can anyone help?

(Intransitive): relax

(Intransitive) to relax and become friendlier and more talkative --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:36, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

expanded (adjective): made into foam

expanded (adjective): describes plastics made into a lightweight solid foam by the introduction of gas during the manufacturing process
Expanded polyurethane

--Backinstadiums (talk) 09:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)