(often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person; "a fund sacred to charity"; "a morning hour sacred to study"; "a private office sacred to the President"
concerned with religion or religious purposes; "sacred texts"; "sacred rites"; "sacred music"
worthy of respect or dedication; "saw motherhood as woman's sacred calling"
large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type"
the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"
faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"
marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings"
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined
sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance