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extent
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)
- A range of values or locations.
- 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.
- (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- The valuation of property.
- (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
- (obsolete) Extended.
See also
- scope
- extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Verb
extent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?
extent From the web:
- what extent means
- what extent synonym
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- which extent or what extent
weight
English
Etymology
From Middle English weight, wei?te, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ?ewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *wegan? (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”).
Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”) and Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”) and German Gewicht (“weight”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /we?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
- Homophone: wait
Noun
weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- Importance or influence.
- 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
- Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
- 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11
- "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
- 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
- (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- (lubricants) viscosity rating.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- Pressure; burden.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)
- [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
- 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)
- (criminal slang, dated) Money.
- 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)
- No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.
- 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)
Alternative forms
- wt. (abbreviation)
Derived terms
Related terms
- weigh
Coordinate terms
- mass
- inertial mass
- gravitational mass
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (ueito)
- ? Burmese: ???? (wit)
Translations
Verb
weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
Translations
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- what weight for weighted blanket
- what weight class is floyd mayweather
- what weight is obese
- what weight class is ryan garcia
- what weight is considered obese
- what weight class is canelo
- what weight kettlebell should i get
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