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Definition of Expansively
1. Adverb. In an impressively expansive manner. "She managed to live rather expansively on her modest income"
2. Adverb. In an ebullient manner. "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression"
Definition of Expansively
1. Adverb. In an expansive manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expansively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expansively
Literary usage of Expansively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Useful Information for Engineers: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to by William Fairbairn (1864)
"The working of steam expansively is one of the most important subjects to which
the engineer can ... This is technically called ' working steam expansively. ..."
2. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1827)
"On the Economy of using highly Elastic Steam expansively, <5fc. ... 9 and 10,
will show the economy of using steam expansively, and also the method of ..."
3. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1827)
"On the Economy of using highly Elastic Steam expansively, fyc. ... 9 and 10, will
show the economy of using steam expansively, and also the method of ..."
4. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1855)
"The attention of the Institution has been called on several occasions to the
advantages of working steam expansively, both in engines employed in ..."
5. Treatise on the Steam Engine by James Renwick (1839)
"GENERAL VIEW OF CONDENSING ENGINES ACTING expansively, OF HIGH.PRESSURE, SINGLE-ACTING
... —Effects of steam acting expansively, as usually employed. ..."
6. The Steam Engine: Comprising an Account of Its Invention and Progressive by Thomas Tredgold (1827)
"X.) When the steam acts expansively the power is obtained with a smaller quantity
... Double engine acting expansively. The motion of a double engine acting ..."
7. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1897)
"Efficiency of an engine using steam non expansively. As a contrast to the ideally
perfect steam-engine of § 67 we may next consider a cyclic action such as ..."
8. Hand-book of Modern Steam Fire-engines: Including the Running, Care and by Stephen Roper (1897)
"... of a high pressure is clearly manifest when, at the same time, advantage is
taken of the facilities it offers for working expansively in the cylinder. ..."
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