different between sprawl vs extension

English

Etymology

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutan? (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp???l/

Rhymes: -??l

• (US) IPA^(key): /sp??l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sp??l/

Verb

sprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)

1. To sit with the limbs spread out.
2. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

Translations

Noun

sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural sprawls)

1. An ungainly sprawling posture.
2. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

Translations

Derived terms

• urban sprawl

See also

• Los Angelization

References

• “sprawl”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French estension, from Latin extensi?, extensi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?n??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?ten?sion

Noun

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

1. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase

2. The state of being extended
3. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
4. A part of a building that has been extended from the original
5. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

   • In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.

6. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
7. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
8. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
9. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
10. (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
11. (computing) A file extension.

    Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.

12. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.

    a browser extension

13. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
14. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.

Synonyms

• (semantics): denotation

Antonyms

• (act of extending): shortening
• (exercise): curl

Derived terms

Related terms

• extend (verb)
• extense
• extent
• (semantics): intension
• (semantics): comprehension

Translations

See also

• flexion

Anagrams

• in extenso

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English extension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eksten??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?ten?sion

Noun

extension

1. (colloquial) extension cord (electrical cord with multi-port socket)

French

Etymology

From Old French estension, borrowed from Latin extenti?, extenti?nem.

Noun

extension f (plural extensions)

1. extension

Derived terms

• module d'extension

Related terms

• étendre

Further reading

• “extension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).