extend
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extend/ɪkˈstend/
▶verb
- 1 make larger or longer in space or time.
■ occupy a specified area or continue for a specified distance.
- 2 hold (something) out towards someone.
■ offer or make available.
- 3 (extend to) be applicable to.
- 4 strain or exert to the utmost.
– derivatives
extendability noun,
extendable adjective,
extendibility noun,
extendible adjective,
extensibility noun,
extensible adjective.
extendability noun,
extendable adjective,
extendibility noun,
extendible adjective,
extensibility noun,
extensible adjective.
– origin ME: from L. extens-, extendere ‘stretch out’.
'extend' also found in these Oxford entries:
bat
- branch
- carry
- come
- concertina
- cover
- cross
- cross-examine
- dollar diplomacy
- draw
- during
- envelope
- extension
- extensive
- extent
- extrapolate
- farthingale
- foraminifer
- go
- hyperextend
- intend
- jut
- limit
- neoteny
- open
- outstretch
- overlap
- overrun
- pertain
- piece
- point
- produce
- prolong
- prorogue
- protractor
- protrude
- quadriceps
- range
- reach
- rear
- redshirt
- renew
- ribbon
- roll
- run
- snake
- span
- spread
- standard
