The verb extend can have several related meanings, including thrust out, continue, broaden, expand, unfold, span, or increase in scope.
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length;
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extend one''s limbs or muscles, or the entire body; "Stretch your legs!"; "Extend your right arm above your head"
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thrust or extend out; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting"
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increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice"
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continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
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lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
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prolong the time allowed for payment of; "extend the loan"
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extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"
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expand the influence of; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent"
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use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don''t strain your mind too much"
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open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"
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cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?"
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extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"
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offer verbally; "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy"
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make available; provide; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"
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stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn''t go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts ex
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span an interval of distance, space or time; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"
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reach outward in space; "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk"
v. t.
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or
continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord
across the street.
v. t.
To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to
spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling
them.
v. t.
To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to
extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend
power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as,
to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
v. t.
To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
v. t.
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend
sympathy to the suffering.
v. t.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating
additions; as, to extend liquors.
v. t.
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in
satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
Extend
Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'.2.
His helpless hand extend.5.
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length;
Usage Examples
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.
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Other Usage ExamplesHuman intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
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