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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)

1. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
2. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.

   The desert extended for miles in all directions.

3. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
4. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
6. (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

   to extend sympathy to the suffering

   to extend credit to a valued customer

7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

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   • 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.

8. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. (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

10. (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.

Synonyms

• enlarge
• expand
• increase
• lengthen
• stretch
• widen

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Anagrams

• dentex

English

Etymology

tele- +? -scope.From Latin t?lescopium, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (t?leskópos, “far-seeing”), from ???? (têle, “afar”) + ?????? (skopé?, “I look at”).

Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?l?sk??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?l??sko?p/
• Hyphenation: tele?scope

Noun

telescope (plural telescopes)

1. A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
2. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
3. (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
   • 1963, Television Engineering: Report (page 245)

     In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

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Verb

telescope (third-person singular simple present telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
3. (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.

See also

• binoculars
• microscope

References

• telescope at OneLook Dictionary Search