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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extended
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extended family
sb's extended family (=including not only parents and children, but also grandparents, aunts etc)
▪ She gets a lot of help from her extended family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ A more extended example can be provided by the notion of alienation.
▪ Ethnicity is given more extended treatment in the following chapters.
▪ We will return to this problem of spacing in the following section, with a more extended discussion on consonance and dissonance.
■ NOUN
discussion
▪ The draft union treaty, after an extended discussion, was finally published in the central press in November 1990.
▪ An extended discussion of this kind of social analysis is in Chapters 5 and 6.
▪ We will return to this problem of spacing in the following section, with a more extended discussion on consonance and dissonance.
family
▪ No chance, they'd brought their bureaucratically extended families to stay.
▪ Different cultures have different attitudes to such obligations; for some it is merely an extension of an already extended family.
▪ And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand.
▪ The extended family of the Schlesingers kept in touch over the years.
▪ It was the typical extended family time with grandmother and other visiting relatives.
Family life today is likely to be affected by the extended family.
▪ Members of Dorrance's extended family have indeed disagreed in public over whether or not the company should be sold.
▪ Extended families seldom live together in Britain, but the interaction between members of the extended family is likely to be important.
hand
▪ He removed the glasses on reaching the tarmac and he shook the Chief of Protocol's extended hand.
▪ An underside view of the extended hand of a bat showing the webbed fingers which make flight possible.
▪ Ybreska's extended hands embraced only empty air as Kirov moved back out of his reach, but it didn't matter.
▪ Graham rose to his feet and shook Laidlaw's extended hand.
memory
▪ If you have a 286 or 386 then you have to find a way of converting the natural extended memory to expanded.
▪ EMM386 emulates expanded memory, and smartdrv will run much faster in physical extended memory than it will in emulated expanded memory.
▪ Operating under Windows 3.0, LabQuest utilises the extended memory capability, multi-tasking and networking features of this graphic interface system.
▪ It will need a third-party memory manager to take advantage of expanded or extended memory.
period
▪ After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes.
▪ It was noted above that for an extended period of our history crime was actually falling.
▪ Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years.
▪ The company applies its techniques through workshops or residencies over extended periods of time in hospitals, community centres of special schools.
▪ Studying the body clock for extended periods of time Consider the following experimental design for a volunteer studied on his own.
▪ The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
▪ Each section is relatively short, the idea being to avoid extended periods of continuous reading from the screen.
▪ Miller observed that penal institutions' can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the suicide letter also keeps a foot in the abstract world, the world of metaphysics in my extended sense.
▪ Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed.
▪ It is not suitable for extended use beyond three years, without modification and revision.
▪ Peake was not interested in a permanent move and Pool did not pursue the idea of an extended loan.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extended

Extend \Ex*tend"\ ([e^]ks*t[e^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extended; p. pr. & vb. n. Extending.] [L. extendere, extentum, extensum; ex out + tendere to stretch. See Trend.]

  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 trial.

  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.

  7. (Eng. Law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

    Extended letter (Typog.), 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
extended

mid-15c., "occupying time, made longer," past participle adjective from extend (v.). Meaning "stretched out" in space is from 1550s; extended-play (adj.), in reference to recordings (especially 7-inch, 45 rpm vinyl records) is from 1953; in reference to pinball games by 1943. Extended family (n.) in sociology recorded from 1942.\n\nA challenging question was asked RCA engineers and scientists in 195

  1. How can we increase the playing time of a 7-inch record, without using a larger disc? Sixteen months of research gave the answer, "45 EP"
    --Extended Play.

    [Radio Corporation of America magazine advertisement, May 1953]

    \n
Wiktionary
extended
  1. 1 longer in length or extension; elongated 2 stretched out or pulled out; expanded 3 lasting longer; protracted 4 having a large scope or range; extensive 5 (context of a typeface English) wider than usual v

  2. (en-past of: extend)

WordNet
extended
  1. adj. relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations" [syn: drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted]

  2. fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand" [ant: unextended]

  3. great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection" [syn: extensive, wide]

  4. drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page" [syn: elongated, lengthened, prolonged]

  5. beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"

  6. large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands" [syn: extensive]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "extended".

Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.

He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .

On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.

The limits of the latter therefore seem to be indefinitely extended, whilst on the other hand tradition, and polemics too in many cases, demanded an adherence to the shortest formula.

As with horizontally extended radicles, of which the tip has been cut off or destroyed, the part which ought to bend most remains motionless for many hours or days, although exposed at right angles to the full influence of geotropism, we must conclude that the tip alone is sensitive to this power, and transmits some influence or stimulus to the adjoining parts, causing them to bend.

Lord Ado would leave her alone for an extended time as he still had other business to conduct and probably wanted her to wait in fear for his entrance.

The fairing for the towed array extended longitudinally aft from the leading edge of the sail to the stern.

He proceeded up to the platform that extended most of the length of the hull aft of the sail, the seats near the sail for senior officers like Donchez and for him and Duckett.

His interest extended to her afterwork hours also, and she found herself telling him of some of the excursions she and Paul had made, of picnics in the country and water-skiing on the Mississippi, of dinners and plays they had enjoyed.

British line had now pivoted round, until its position extended from the Hermanito to near Aldea Tejarda.

Having by the proclamation extended amnesty on the simple condition of an oath of loyalty to the Union and the Constitution, and obedience to the Decree of Emancipation, the President had established a definite and easily ascertainable constituency of white men in the South to whom the work of reconstructing civil government in the several States might be intrusted.

On the 25th of June amnesty was extended to about one thousand persons, and during the remainder of the Congress some five hundred more were relieved from political disability.

That the Librarian of Congress is hereby authorized and directed to have the Annotated Constitution of the United States of America, published in 1938, revised and extended to include annotations of decisions of the Supreme Court prior to January 1, 1948, construing the several provisions of the Constitution correlated under each separate provision, and to have the said revised document printed at the Government Printing Office.

In consequence the annotations have been extended to a somewhat later date, covering decisions of the Supreme Court through June 30, 1952.

Each swan extended her neck, then plunged it delicately beneath a garland to emerge crowned with asphodels and aster, rosemary and rue .