extender
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]extender (plural extenders)
- 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[1]:
- “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".
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Verb
[edit]extender (first-person singular present extendo, first-person singular preterite extendi, past participle extendido)
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
[edit]Verb
[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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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