extend
verb/ɛkˈstɛnd/
Etymology From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”).
10 senses
- 1To increase in extent.
- 2To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- 3To cause to increase in extent.
- 4To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- 5To straighten (a limb).
- 6To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- 7To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- 8To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in…
- 9Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be…
- 10To reenlist for a further period.
1
To increase in extent.
2
To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- The desert extended for miles in all directions.
- Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.1964, Jen Yu-ti [任育地], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 165:
3
To cause to increase in extent.
4
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5
To straighten (a limb).
6
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.
- There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.
- The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water.1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54:
1 more example
- […] 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.1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, page 155:
9
Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
Object-oriented programming
- The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
10
Government, Military, Politics, War US To reenlist for a further period.
- 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:
- Derived terms
- coextend, extendability, extendable, extend a hand, extender, extend one's hand, hyperextend, misextend, overextend, re-extend, underextend
- Related terms
- extendible, extensible, extension, extensive, extent