Extended

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extend \Ex*tend"\ ([e^]ks*t[e^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Extended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extending}.] [L. extendere,
     extentum, extensum; ex out + tendere to stretch. See
     {Trend}.]
     1. 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.
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              Few extend their thoughts toward universal
              knowledge.                            --Locke.
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     2. To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread;
        to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or
        rolling them.
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     3. 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 trial.
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     4. To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
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              His helpless hand extend.             --Dryden.
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     5. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend
        sympathy to the suffering.
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     6. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating
        additions; as, to extend liquors. --G. P. Burnham.
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     7. (Eng. Law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in
        satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
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     {Extended letter} (Typog.), a letter, or style of type,
        having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type
        of the same height.
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     Note: This is extended type.
  
     Syn: To increase; enlarge; expand; widen; diffuse. See
          {Increase}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extended
       adj 1: relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a
              drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a
              lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged
              and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations" [syn:
              {drawn-out}, {lengthy}, {prolonged}, {protracted}]
       2: fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope";
          "his extended legs reached almost across the small room";
          "refused to accept the extended hand" [ant: {unextended}]
       3: great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons
          with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture
          writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
          [syn: {extensive}, {wide}]
       4: drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don
          Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year";
          "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger
          planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page" [syn: {elongated},
           {lengthened}, {prolonged}]
       5: beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press'
          shows an extended sense of `hot'"
       6: large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman
          settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"
          [syn: {extensive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "extended":
     accelerated, aggrandized, allegorical, ample, ampliate, amplified,
     amplitudinous, associational, augmented, beefed-up, bloated,
     boosted, broad, broadened, built-up, capacious, commodious,
     connotational, connotative, crescendoed, de longue haleine, deep,
     deepened, definable, denotational, denotative, dragged out, drawn,
     drawn out, drawn-out, elevated, elongate, elongated, endless,
     enhanced, enlarged, expanded, expansive, expressive, extending,
     extensional, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, figurative,
     filled out, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance,
     heightened, hiked, increased, indicative, infinite, inflated,
     intelligible, intensified, intensional, interminable,
     interpretable, jazzed up, languishing, lasting, lengthened,
     lengthy, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn,
     long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent,
     magnified, marathon, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical,
     multiplied, overlong, padded, pithy, pointed, pregnant,
     proliferated, prolix, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled,
     raised, readable, referential, reinforced, roomy, scopic,
     sententious, significant, significative, spacious, spread,
     spread out, spreading, spun out, spun-out, stiffened, straggling,
     strained, strengthened, stretched, stretched out, stretched-out,
     strung out, substantial, suggestive, swollen, symbolic, talkative,
     taut, tense, tight, tightened, transferred, unrelenting, upped,
     vast, verbose, voluminous, wide, widened, widespread, windy,
     wordy