different between extent vs summat

English

Etymology

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?t?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Hyphenation: ex?tent

Noun

extent (plural extents)

1. A range of values or locations.
2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.

   The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent

   • 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:

     The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
4. The valuation of property.
5. (law) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.

Derived terms

• multiextent
• to an extent
• to some extent

Related terms

• extend
• extense

Translations

Adjective

extent

1. (obsolete) Extended.

See also

• scope
• extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

extent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?

English

Alternative forms

• sommat
• sumet (17th century)
• summut, zum'ot, summot (18th – 19th centuries)
• sumat, summet, zumat, zummat, zummet, zummut (19th century)

Etymology

Dialectal variant of somewhat attested from the 18th century. Joseph Wright suggested that it might be a contraction of "some that" in A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill (page 78).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?t/, /?z?m?t/, /?s?m?t/

Homonyms: summit (in some dialects)

Pronoun

summat

1. (Britain, especially Northern England, Yorkshire) Something.
   • 1809, Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder" in The Sporting Magazine, volume 34, no. 202, page 185

     ...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible.

   • 1825 October 12, Walter Scott, Letters (published 1935), IX.245

     They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable.

   • 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, I.i.i.10

     A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things.

   • 1929, John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent, page 129

     He were a-going to gie I summat for’n, but like enough it’ll be worth more to a gent like yourself.

   • 1947, Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton, page 53

     Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat?

   • 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv:

     ‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’

   • 2006, Robin Jarvis, Thomas, page 20

     Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?

Adverb

summat (not comparable)

1. (Britain, regional) Somewhat, to a limited extent or degree
   • 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, I.i.viii.172

     It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!

Anagrams

• Sammut

Finnish

Noun

summat

1. Nominative plural form of summa.