Word Meanings - PROLONGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prolong; to extend in space or in time.

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• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• EXTEND
  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
• PROLONGE
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• PROLONGATE
  To prolong; to extend in space or in time.
• PROLONGATION
  1. The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon. 2. That which forms an additional length.
• PROLONGABLE
  Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• PROLONGER
  One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.
• EXTENDEDLY
  In an extended manner.
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• PROLONGMENT
  Prolongation.
• EXTENDER
  One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
• PROLONG
  1. To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line. 2. To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days. Prolong awhile the traitor's life. Shak. The unhappy queen with talk prolonged
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• COEXTEND
  To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• INEXTENDED
  Not extended.
• ANCHOR SPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.