📖 E — The English dictionary · page 38

expelling — Everyday, meaning 1: Expelling someone is officially making them leave a school, club or country because of bad behaviour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Expelling something is forcing it out, such as air from the lungs or gas from an engine.↗ Example: The school is expelling him for bullying.↗ · When you breathe out, you are expelling air from your lungs.↗ · The volcano was expelling ash for days.↗ · A rocket moves by expelling hot gas backwards.↗ · The club is expelling members who cheat.↗ · Whales blow by expelling air through their blowholes.↗

expend — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To use or spend energy, time, effort or money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To use up completely.↗ Example: Running expends a lot of energy.↗ · The school expended 500 dollars on new books.↗ · Don't expend all your effort at the start of the race.↗ · Birds expend energy flying south.↗ · Much time was expended on the project.↗ · The rocket expended all its fuel.↗ · He frisked about the meadow, now here, now there, making sprightly leaps, with as little effort as a bird expends in hopping from twig to twig.↗

expenditure — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The total amount of money spent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Using up energy, time or effort.↗ Example: The school's expenditure on books was 500 dollars.↗ · Income minus expenditure gives your savings.↗ · Her weekly expenditure on snacks is 6 dollars.↗ · Running uses a big expenditure of energy.↗ · The council cut its expenditure.↗ · Find the total expenditure if 4 tickets cost 12 dollars each.↗ · Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.↗

expense — Everyday, meaning 1: Expense is the amount of money something costs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An expense is something you have to pay for.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Expenses are money a worker spends for the job and is paid back for.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: At someone's expense means they paid for it, or that a joke made them look silly.↗ Example: The new roof was a huge expense.↗ · Food is the family's biggest expense.↗ · Mum's work pays her travel expenses.↗ · They laughed at my expense.↗ · The trip was paid for at the school's expense.↗ · Spare no expense for the party!↗ · Keep a list of your weekly expenses.↗ · I have learned this at my own expense.↗ · with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber, and let the expenses be given out of the king's house; (Writings EZR.6.4, JPS 1917)↗

expensive — Everyday, meaning 1: Expensive means costing a lot of money.↗ Example: That bike is too expensive for me.↗ · Which toy is more expensive, the robot or the train?↗ · The robot is $5 more expensive than the train.↗ · Phones are expensive to fix if you drop them.↗ · We bought the cheaper one; the other was too expensive.↗ · Eating out every day is expensive.↗ · Diamonds are very expensive.↗ · It was not an expensive piece of wood.↗ · Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

experience — Everyday, meaning 1: Experience is knowledge or skill you get by doing or seeing things over time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An experience is something that happens to you, especially something that leaves a strong feeling.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To experience something is to have it happen to you or to feel it.↗ Example: I know from experience that the bus is often late.↗ · Visiting the zoo was a great experience.↗ · She has a lot of experience with dogs.↗ · Write about an experience that made you proud.↗ · Many animals experience fear during storms.↗ · Camping in the rain was a new experience for us.↗ · He gained experience by helping at the shop.↗ · He had had experience with such birds before.↗ · I spoke with my own heart, saying: 'Lo, I have gotten great wisdom, more also than all that were before me over Jerusalem'; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.↗ (Writings ECC.1.16, JPS 1917)↗

experiment — Everyday, meaning 1: A test done carefully to find out something, check an idea, or see what happens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To try new things or ideas to see what they are like (experiment with colours).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A new way of doing something that is being tried out.↗ Example: We did an experiment to see which ball bounces highest.↗ · In a fair experiment, you only change one thing.↗ · Write down your prediction before the experiment.↗ · She experimented with different colours in her painting.↗ · Never mix cleaning products as an experiment — it can make poison gas.↗ · The experiment showed that plants grow towards the light.↗ · Let's experiment with the recipe and add some cinnamon.↗ · He split the second bulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened.↗

experimental — Everyday, meaning 1: Experimental means to do with experiments, tests done to find something out («experimental results»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Experimental means new and still being tested, not yet proved to work («an experimental drug», «an experimental plane»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Experimental art, music or writing tries new, unusual ways.↗ Example: Write your experimental results in a table.↗ · The experimental method helps us test ideas fairly.↗ · The plane is experimental and has never carried passengers.↗ · Doctors tried an experimental medicine.↗ · The band plays strange, experimental music.↗ · Our experimental group of plants got extra light.↗ · The new timetable is only experimental for this term.↗

experimentation — Everyday, meaning 1: Experimentation is the process of trying out experiments to test ideas and find things out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also mean trying new and different ways of doing things to see what works.↗ Example: Through experimentation, we found which paper towel soaked up the most water.↗ · Science moves forward through careful experimentation.↗ · The chef loves experimentation with new flavours.↗ · People disagree about animal experimentation.↗ · The band's new album shows a lot of experimentation.↗ · Experimentation taught her that the plant grew best near the window.↗

experimenter — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who does experiments, especially in science.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who likes trying new things to see what happens.↗ Example: The experimenter measured the water every hour.↗ · A good experimenter changes only one thing at a time.↗ · Alice became an experimenter with the little cakes.↗ · The experimenter wrote the results in a table.↗ · Benjamin Franklin was a famous experimenter with electricity.↗ · Be a careful experimenter and wear safety goggles.↗

expert — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who knows a lot about a subject or is very skilled at something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very skilled or knowing a lot (an expert swimmer).↗ Example: My uncle is an expert on spiders.↗ · She is an expert at chess.↗ · Ask an expert before you touch electrical wires.↗ · After the project, Sam was the class expert on volcanoes.↗ · Experts say children need about ten hours of sleep.↗ · He is an expert swimmer.↗ · Practise a lot and one day you could be an expert too.↗ · The Caliph took one of the olives, tasted it, and ordered the expert merchants to do the same.↗ · They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in the night.↗ (Writings SNG.3.8, JPS 1917)↗

expertise — Everyday, meaning 1: Special skill or knowledge in a subject that comes from study, training or experience, as in «medical expertise».↗ Example: The vet has expertise in treating horses.↗ · Gran's baking expertise is legendary.↗ · We needed someone with computer expertise to fix the problem.↗ · Her expertise in maths helped the team win the quiz.↗ · Building a bridge takes a lot of expertise.↗ · Ask the coach — football is his area of expertise.↗

expiate — Everyday, meaning 1: To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing something good, so that the guilt is removed.↗ Example: He tried to expiate his crime by giving his gold to the poor.↗ · The king expiated his sin with years of penance.↗ · Only a kind deed can expiate that wrong.↗ · By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.↗ (Writings PRO.16.6, JPS 1917)↗ · and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.↗ (Prophets ISA.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.3.14, JPS 1917)↗

expiation — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A making up for wrong, so that the wrong is forgiven.↗ Example: Sing aloud, O ye nations, of His people; for He doth avenge the blood of His servants, and doth render vengeance to His adversaries, and doth make expiation for the land of His people.↗ (Torah DEU.32.43, JPS 1917)↗

expire — Everyday, meaning 1: When something expires, it stops being valid or usable after a certain time, like a ticket, card or password.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Food or medicine that has expired is past the date it is safe or best to use.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old or formal English, to expire means to die.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: When a sound or echo expires, it fades away and stops being heard.↗ Example: My bus pass expired last week.↗ · Check the milk; it might have expired.↗ · The coupon expires at the end of the month.↗ · Your password has expired; please make a new one.↗ · Don't take medicine that has expired.↗ · The parking time expired, so they got a ticket.↗ · In the old story, the knight expired after the battle.↗ · And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."↗ · It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

expired — Everyday, meaning 1: (euphemism, medical or formal) died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: came to the end of the time it is valid or allowed: «My passport has expired».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of food or medicine) past its use-by or best-before date and not safe or good to use.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal, science) breathed out.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: dead; passed away.↗ Example: The patient expired early in the morning, the nurse wrote in the chart.↗ · My library card has expired, so I need a new one.↗ · Don't drink that milk; it's expired.↗ · Your password has expired; please choose a new one.↗ · The parking ticket expired ten minutes ago and we got a fine.↗ · The offer expires at midnight.↗ · In the old play, the king groans and then expires on the stage.↗ · "The hamster has, um, expired," said Dad, trying to break it gently.↗ · Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave.↗ · And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.↗ (Torah GEN.25.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.↗ (Torah GEN.35.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.↗ (Torah GEN.49.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And the days were not expired; (Prophets 1SA.18.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.↗ (Torah GEN.25.8, JPS 1917) · Then she returned home, bought a coffin, lay down in it, and straightway expired.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)

expiry — Everyday, meaning 1: Expiry is the end of the time when something can be used or is valid, such as a ticket, card or passport.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The «expiry date» is the last day food, medicine or a card should be used (UK, Australia, Ireland, NZ; in the US often «expiration date»).↗ Example: Check the expiry date on the milk before you drink it.↗ · My library card is near its expiry.↗ · Do not use medicine after its expiry date.↗ · The coupon has an expiry date at the end of the month.↗ · Mum renewed her passport before its expiry.↗ · The yoghurt was past its expiry, so we threw it away.↗

explain — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something clear or easy to understand by describing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To give a reason for something: «Can you explain why you were late?».↗ Example: Can you explain how you got 24?↗ · The teacher explained the rules of the game.↗ · Please explain why you were late.↗ · Explain your answer with a picture.↗ · I'll explain it again more slowly.↗ · Can you explain how a rainbow forms?↗ · She explained the problem to her mum.↗ · There's no need to explain — I understand.↗ · I cannot explain more at present.↗ · Hermetic rituals explain this Yetziratic attri- bution.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · This idea is then symbolically explained in the next paragraph.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · This passage is explained by Isaac Satanow in his Hebrew Dictionary entitled Sephath Emeth, p. 44, b: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

explanation — Everyday, meaning 1: An explanation is what you say or write to make something clear and easy to understand: an explanation of how plants grow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An explanation is a reason given for something that happened: is there an explanation for why you are late?↗ Example: The teacher gave a clear explanation of fractions.↗ · Can you give me an explanation for being late?↗ · Write an explanation of how the water cycle works.↗ · There must be a simple explanation for the strange noise.↗ · In maths, show your working and an explanation.↗ · He left without any explanation.↗ · Scientists look for an explanation that fits the evidence.↗ · "Princess," exclaimed the nurse, "we cannot tell what you allude to without more explanation."↗ · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗