different between expansion vs borden

English

Etymology

From French expansion, from Latin exp?nsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?spæn??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?pan?sion

Noun

expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions)

1. An act, process, or instance of expanding.

2. The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
3. A new addition.

4. A product to be used with a previous product.

5. That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
   • 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel

     the starred expansion of the skies

6. (steam engines) 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.

Antonyms

• (act of expanding): contraction, shrinkage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin exp?nsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??.sj??/

Noun

expansion f (plural expansions)

1. expansion

Descendants

• ? German: Expansion

Further reading

• “expansion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin exp?nsi?, attested from 1776.

Noun

expansion c

1. expansion

Declension

References

Catalan

Verb

borden

1. third-person plural present indicative form of bordar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?r.d?(n)/
• Rhymes: -?rd?n

Noun

borden

1. Plural form of bord

Anagrams

• borend

Middle English

Etymology 1

From bord +? -en (“plural ending”)

Noun

borden

1. plural of bord

Etymology 2

From bord +? -en (“adjectival ending”).

Alternative forms

• bordyn, burden

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??rd?n/, /?bo?rd?n/, /?b?rd?n/

Adjective

borden

1. Composed of boards or planks.

Descendants

• English: boarden

References

• “b??rden, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-02.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?por?ten/

Verb

borden

1. first-person singular past indicative of bordit

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

borden m

1. definite singular of bord (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

borden m

1. definite singular of bord (Etymology 2)

Spanish

Verb

borden

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of bordar.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of bordar.
3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of bordar.

Swedish

Noun

borden

1. definite plural of bord