18 August 2014

expansive

[ik-span-siv]

adjective

1. having a wide range or extent; comprehensive; extensive:
expansive mountain scenery.
2. (of a person’s character or speech) effusive, unrestrained, free, or open:
Our expansive host welcomed us warmly.
3. tending to expand or capable of expanding.
4. causing expansion :
the expansive force of heat.
5. working by expansion, as an engine.
6. Psychiatry. marked by an abnormal euphoric state and by delusions of grandeur.

Origin
1645-1655 1645-55; expans(ion) + -ive
Related forms
expansively, adverb
expansiveness, noun
nonexpansive, adjective
nonexpansively, adverb
nonexpansiveness, noun

Synonyms
2. sociable, extroverted, outgoing, genial, unreserved; gushy, gushing.

Examples for expansive
– It is normally a time for upbeat comments about bright futures and expansive political visions.
– In previous entries of my sabbatical diary, one topic that arose was how to handle expansive periods of unstructured time.
– If you buy this premise, there are expansive implications.

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Today’s aphorism

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

– John Ray

On this day

18 August – Vietnam Veterans’ Day. The day was originally Long Tan Day, which commemorated the anniversary of the Australian Army’s victory in the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War on this day in 1966. During the battle, 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought against 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong troops. Eighteen Australian and New Zealand soldiers were killed and 24 wounded, while there were hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong deaths.

18 August 1931 – the flooded Yangtze River, China, peaks in what becomes the worst natural disaster of the 20th century, killing up to 3.7 million people.

18 August 1948 – Australia’s greatest cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman, plays his last game of test cricket. It was played at the Oval in Britain against the English cricket team. Bradman was bowled for a duck, which left him 4 runs short of a career average of 100 runs. Bradman’s first test was in 1928. Over his 20 year test career, he played 52 tests, scored 6,996 runs, with a top score of 334 and an average of 99.94. Throughout his first-grade career, he played 234 games, scored 28,067 runs, with a top score of 452 not out and an average of 95.14.