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Extended   /ɪkstˈɛndəd/  /ɪkstˈɛndɪd/   Listen
Extended

adjective
1.
Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted.  Synonyms: drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted.  "An extended discussion" , "A lengthy visit from her mother-in-law" , "A prolonged and bitter struggle" , "Protracted negotiations"
2.
Fully extended or stretched forth.  "His extended legs reached almost across the small room" , "Refused to accept the extended hand"  Antonym: unextended.
3.
Drawn out or made longer spatially.  Synonyms: elongated, lengthened, prolonged.  "Lengthened skirts are fashionable this year" , "The extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes" , "A prolonged black line across the page"
4.
Beyond the literal or primary sense.
5.
Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity.  Synonym: extensive.  "Extended farm lands" , "Surgeons with extended experience" , "They suffered extensive damage"


Extend

verb
(past & past part. extended; pres. part. extending)
1.
Extend in scope or range or area.  Synonyms: broaden, widen.  "Widen the range of applications" , "Broaden your horizon" , "Extend your backyard"
2.
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.  Synonyms: go, lead, pass, run.  "His knowledge doesn't go very far" , "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life" , "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
3.
Span an interval of distance, space or time.  Synonyms: continue, cover.  "The period covered the turn of the century" , "My land extends over the hills on the horizon" , "This farm covers some 200 acres" , "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
4.
Make available; provide.  Synonym: offer.  "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"
5.
Thrust or extend out.  Synonyms: exsert, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out.  "Point a finger" , "Extend a hand" , "The bee exserted its sting"
6.
Reach outward in space.  Synonyms: poke out, reach out.
7.
Offer verbally.  Synonym: offer.  "He offered his sympathy"
8.
Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body.  Synonym: stretch.  "Extend your right arm above your head"
9.
Expand the influence of.  Synonym: expand.
10.
Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.  Synonyms: draw out, prolong, protract.  "She extended her visit by another day" , "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
11.
Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length.  Synonyms: stretch, stretch out, unfold.  "Stretch out that piece of cloth" , "Extend the TV antenna"
12.
Cause to move at full gallop.  Synonym: gallop.
13.
Open or straighten out; unbend.
14.
Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity.  Synonym: strain.  "Don't strain your mind too much"
15.
Prolong the time allowed for payment of.
16.
Continue or extend.  Synonym: carry.  "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
17.
Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.  Synonym: stretch.  "Extend the casserole with a little rice"



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"Extended" Quotes from Famous Books



... point.[19] Thus, a line from some ascertained point near the mouth of the vertical boring to the mouth of the slant tunnel would lie due north and south, and serve as the required guide for the orientation of the pyramid's base. If this base extended beyond the opening of the slant tunnel, then, by continuing this tunnelling through the base tiers of the pyramid, the means would be obtained of correcting ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor
... 31, line 18. The Danavirki, or Danish wall, began in the east at the head of the Slefjord, and extended to the west only as far as the Traeaa, the tributary river of the isthmus, and not to the sea. [Marker printed after "his ...
— The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) • Snorri Sturluson
... abruptly and strode down the gallery to a picture at the end, and facing the room. It was the full-length, life-size portrait of a woman with gown and head-dress in the style of the First Empire. One tiny, pointed foot was slightly extended from beneath the white gown, and—so perfect had been the skill of the artist—she looked as if about to step from the canvas ...
— What Dreams May Come • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... without effort the numbers, viz., forty-one thousand years, for the time, (the space being our own distance from the sun repeated six hundred and seventy thousand times,) what would be the time required for reaching, in the body, that distance to which Lord Rosse's six feet mirror has so recently extended our vision. The time would be, as Dr. Nichol computes, about two hundred and fifty millions of years, supposing that our rate of travelling was about three times that of our earth in its orbit. Now, as the velocity is assumed to be the same in both cases, the ratio between the distance ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... secondary motive appearing in the alto voice (which should be brought out in performance), and in measures 11 and 12 a free ending in the relative major. The closing measures, 13 and 14, give an echo-like effect, which will be explained when we come to extended sentences. Such a sentence is not to be considered as one of 14 measures, although the literal counting gives that number; for the first complete cadence occurs in the 12th measure at the end of the third four-measure phrase; the ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding


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