Extra

7 definitions found

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

  Extra- \Ex"tra-\ [L., fr. exter. See {Exterior}.]
     A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often
     used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of,
     beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the
     word to which it is prefixed.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Extra \Ex"tra\, a.
     Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary;
     additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good;
     superior; as, extra work; extra pay. "By working extra
     hours." --H. Spencer.
     [1913 Webster]

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

  Extra \Ex"tra\, n.; pl. {Extras}.
     1. Something in addition to what is due, expected, or
        customary; esp., an added charge or fee, or something for
        which an additional charge is made; as, at some hotels air
        conditioning is an extra.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. An edition of a newspaper issued at a time other than the
        regular one.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. (Cricket) A run, as from a bye, credited to the general
        score but not made from a hit.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     4. Something of an extra quality or grade.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extra
       adj 1: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need
              extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"; "I have no
              other shoes"; "there are other possibilities" [syn: {other(a)},
               {additional}]
       2: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose
          excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the
          dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought
          redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological
          advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary
          ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat";
          "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs
          as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus
          cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: {excess}, {redundant},
           {spare}, {supererogatory}, {superfluous}, {supernumerary},
           {surplus}]
       3: added to a regular schedule; "a special holiday flight";
          "put on special buses for the big game" [syn: {special}]
       n 1: a minor actor in crowd scenes [syn: {supernumerary}, {spear
            carrier}]
       2: an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a
          crisis)
       3: something additional of the same kind; "he always carried
          extras in case of an emergency" [syn: {duplicate}]
       adv : unusually or exceptionally; "an extra fast car"

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

  213 Moby Thesaurus words for "extra":
     above, accessory, accident, accidental, added, addendum, addition,
     additional, additionally, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious,
     again, all included, also, altogether, amazingly,
     among other things, ancillary, and all, and also, and so, another,
     appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, as a bonus, as well,
     ascititious, au reste, auxiliary, balance, beside, besides, beyond,
     bit player, bonus, casual, circumstantial, collateral,
     considerably, contingency, contingent, contributory, daily,
     daily newspaper, de trop, decoration, dividend, else, en plus,
     especially, exceptionally, excess, extra added attraction,
     extra dash, extra edition, extraordinarily, extremely, farther,
     figurant, figurante, filigree, filling, fillip, flourish,
     for lagniappe, fortuitous, fresh, frill, further, furthermore,
     gazette, gratuity, happenstance, held back, held in reserve,
     held out, in abeyance, in addition, in hand, incidental,
     inessential, inter alia, into the bargain, item, kicker, lagniappe,
     leftover, likewise, margin, markedly, mere chance, mint, more,
     moreover, mute, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, new,
     news, newspaper, newspaper of record, nonessential, not-self,
     notably, noticeably, occasional, odd, off, on the side, on top of,
     original, ornament, other, out-of-the-way, over, over and above,
     overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock,
     oversupply, padding, paper, part-time, particularly, plus,
     pourboire, premium, pristine, put aside, put by, rag, rarely,
     remainder, remaining, remarkably, reserve, saved, secondary, sheet,
     side, similarly, something extra, spare, spear-carrier, special,
     special edition, stand-in, standby, stored, strikingly, stuffing,
     subsidiary, substitute, supe, super, superadded, superaddition,
     superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplement, supplemental,
     supplementary, support, supporting actor, supporting cast,
     surcharge, surplus, surplusage, surprisingly, suspended, tabloid,
     then, therewith, tip, to boot, to spare, too, trimming, twist,
     ulterior, unapplied, unbeaten, uncommon, uncommonly, unconsumed,
     understudy, unemployed, unessential, unexercised, unexpectedly,
     unexpended, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden,
     unused, unusually, unutilized, very, waived, walk-on,
     walking gentleman, weekly, weekly newspaper, wrinkle, yet
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  EXTRA
       EXecutionTRace Analyser (IBM, OS/2)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  EXTRA
       
          Object-oriented, Pascal style, handles sets.  "A Data Model
          and Query Language for EXODUS", M.J. Carey et al, SIGMOD 88
          Conf Proc, pp.413- 423, ACM SIGMOD Record 17:3 (Sept 1988).