extender
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]extender (plural extenders)
- One who extends.
- 1983 June 2, “'PHYSICIAN EXTENDERS' READY TO FILL A GAP THAT DIDN'T DEVELOP”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The public has learned to accept the services of physician extenders as a substitute for a qualified medical doctor, but the medical profession itself will, I daresay, continue to erect substantial barriers to any policy or effort that directly affects income.
- 2010 November 10, John Caramanica, “Monopoly by Marc Jacobs”, in The New York Times[2]:
- [Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, an extender of brands, and in very good shape.
- Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
- 2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic[3]:
- “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.
- Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
- Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
- Soy protein is used as a meat extender.
- (climbing) A runner, or quick-draw.
- (linguistics) A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]any of various components designed to extend the length of a device
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Anagrams
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- Hyphenation: ex‧ten‧der
Verb
[edit]extender (first-person singular present extendo, first-person singular preterite extendi, past participle extendido)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of estender; now a common misspelling
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O mundo coberto de pennas [The world covered in feathers]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives][4], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 175:
- Não conseguiria nunca extender os ossos numa cama, o unico desejo que tinha.
- She would never be able to stretch her bones on a bed, her only wish.
Usage notes
[edit]This spelling coexisted with estender.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of extender (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin extendere, or modified from the Old Spanish estender, which may have been inherited.
Pronunciation
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[edit]extender (first-person singular present extiendo, first-person singular preterite extendí, past participle extendido)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of extender (e-ie alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of extender (e-ie alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]- extender la mano (“to reach out”)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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