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extend
English
Etymology
From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extend? (“I stretch out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of G. P. Burnham to this entry?)
- 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.
- (Britain, 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.
- 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
- enlarge
- expand
- increase
- lengthen
- stretch
- widen
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- dentex
extend From the web:
- what extends the knee
- what extends the forearm
- what extends around a charged object
- what extends the staff upwards and downwards
- what extends the great toe
- what extended mean
- what extends the lower arm
- what extended from the bering strait to alaska
applicable
English
Etymology
From Old French applicable, from Medieval Latin applicabilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æpl?k?b?l/, /??pl?k?b?l/
Adjective
applicable (comparative more applicable, superlative most applicable)
- suitable for application, relevant
Synonyms
- appropriate; See also Thesaurus:suitable or Thesaurus:pertinent
Antonyms
- inapplicable
Derived terms
- applicability
Related terms
Translations
French
Etymology
From appliquer +? -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pli.kabl/
Adjective
applicable (plural applicables)
- applicable
Further reading
- “applicable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
applicable From the web:
- what applicable mean
- what applicable attributes you have
- what does applicable.mean
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