extend

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  1. transitive verb To open or straighten (something) out; unbend: extended the legs of the folding table.
  2. transitive verb To stretch or spread (something) out to greater or fullest length: extended the radio antenna.
  3. transitive verb To exert (oneself) vigorously or to full capacity: Few mountain climbers have extended themselves as those two have.
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  • NOTE: If the partition that you want to extend is to the right of the unallocated partition, then you will need to use METHOD TWO below to extend it instead —  Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials
  • The vagaries of extend are a common topic of conversation; you may find the following interesting reading: about reversing extend —  Bruce Williams
  • But that idea is already changing as lives extend, and medical developments on the horizon suggest that it might change a lot more. —  Forbes.com: News
  • Since the front group of the lens does not extend, the lens is particularly easy to use in close focusing ranges. —  News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
  • And with easy guidance from Michael Morrison, you'll gradually deepen your understanding-learn how to customize, extend, and reuse these applications-and even build skills for creating new ones. —  doggdot.us
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  1. Middle English extenden, from Old French extendre, from Latin extendere : ex-, ex- + tendere, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English extenden, from Old French extendre, estendre, French étendre = Provencal estendre, extendre = Spanish Portuguese extender = Italian estendere, stendere, from Latin extendere, past participle extentus, later, and in derivatives, extensus (cf. Greek ἐκτείνειν: see ectasis), stretch out, from ex, out, + tendere, past participle tentus, stretch (cf. Greek τείνειν, stretch): see tend, tension. Cf. attend, contend, intend, pretend.
 

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