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Word Meanings - EXTEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended

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To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended type. Syn. -- To increase; enlarge; expand; widen; diffuse. See Increase. (more info) 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. Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'. Locke. 2. To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them. 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 trail. 4. To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand. His helpless hand extend. Dryden. 5. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering. 6. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.

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  • ANNEX
    to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
  • CONFERENCE
    A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
  • PROJECTION
    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
  • REVERT
    To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
  • SUPPLYMENT
    A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
  • ATTAIN
    atteindre, fr. L. attingere; ad + tangere to touch, reach. See 1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson. 3. To get
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • PROJECTMENT
    Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • UNFOLDER
    One who, or that which, unfolds.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • DEVELOPMENT
    The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • YIELDABLE
    Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • ADDUCE
    To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • REBOUND
    1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
  • YIELDANCE
    1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
  • OUTPREACH
    To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • FOREREACH
    To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • SELF-IMPARTING
    Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • REATTAIN
    To attain again.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in

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