extend
English
Etymology
From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“I stretch out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛkˈstɛnd/
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- Rhymes: -ɛnd
- Hyphenation: ex‧tend
Verb
extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)
- (intransitive) To increase in extent.
- (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- The desert extended for miles in all directions.
- (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
- (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
- (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend credit to a valued customer
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- 1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54:
- The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water.
- 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts (page 155)
- […] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper.
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- (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
- Synonym: inherit
- (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
- 1993, The Leatherneck (volume 76, page xxxvi)
- Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
- 1993, The Leatherneck (volume 76, page xxxvi)
Synonyms
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- enlarge
- expand
- increase
- lengthen
- stretch
- widen
Derived terms
- extender
- re-extend
Related terms
- extendible (adjective)
- extensible (adjective)
- extension
- extensive (adjective)
- extent
Translations
to increase in extent
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to possess a certain extent
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to bestow, offer, impart
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to cause to increase in extent
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to cause to last for a longer period of time
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to be an extension or subtype of
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to straighten a limb
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Noun
extend
- Misspelling of extent.
Anagrams
- dentex