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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
Example:
they suffered extensive damage
Synonyms:
extended; extensive
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Beyond the literal or primary sense
Example:
'hot off the press' shows an extended sense of 'hot'
Classified under:
Similar:
figurative; nonliteral ((used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fully extended or stretched forth
Example:
refused to accept the extended hand
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
outspread; spread (fully extended in width)
outstretched (fully extended especially in length)
sprawly (extended out irregularly)
spread-eagle (with arms and legs stretched out and apart)
stretched (extended or spread over a wide area or distance)
Antonym:
unextended (not extended or stretched out)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Drawn out or made longer spatially
Example:
a prolonged black line across the page
Synonyms:
elongated; extended; lengthened; prolonged
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
Example:
protracted negotiations
Synonyms:
drawn-out; extended; lengthy; prolonged; protracted
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb extend
Context examples:
The second group was fed on a high-fat diet for 5 weeks — and the third lucky group was fed on a high-fat diet, but for an extended period of 13 weeks.
(New Appetite Control Mechanism Found in Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The discovery was made using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, as well as the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)
With extended follow-up observations, we’ll soon be able to determine the make-up of these worlds, establish if atmospheres are present and what gases they contain, and more.
(NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds, NASA)
Scorching temperatures, low precipitation, strong sunlight and low wind speeds allow heat and poor-quality air to stagnate in a given location for an extended period of time.
(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This also makes it the first time that an extended atmosphere has been discovered at infrared wavelengths.
(Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, ESA/Hubble)
A tremor of the wrist that is observed when the wrist is extended.
(Asterixis, NCI Thesaurus)
A semisynthetic, extended spectrum acylampicillin with antibacterial activity.
(Azlocillin, NCI Thesaurus)
She extended both hands toward him piteously, and started forward to meet him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A method for normalization based upon the concept of a quantile-quantile plot extended to n dimensions.
(Bioconductor caAffy Quantiles Robust Normalization, NCI Thesaurus)
A beta strand is an extended polypeptide chain with the sidechains pointing away from the backbone and oriented on opposite sides of the backbone from one residue to another.
(Beta Strand, NCI Thesaurus)
