English
extend
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɛkˈstɛnd/
Verb

extend (extends, present participle extending; past and past participle extended)

  1. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
  2. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
  3. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
  4. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
  5. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
  6. (transitive) 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.
    • 1897, Alonzo Lewis, ‎James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts (page 155)
      […] 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.
  8. (UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
  9. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
    The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
    Synonyms: inherit
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  • Russian: простира́ться
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