Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance added to another substance to modify, dilute, or add to it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which extends or stretches.
- noun A surveyor; one who appraises landed property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various substances designed to
extend any of several properties of a material. - noun Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
- noun climbing Another term for
runner orquick-draw . (from sense #2)
Etymologies
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Examples
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He ran his shower-curtain extender invention, the Shower Bow, through it recently.
Group Is Mother of Inventions Jo Piazza 2010
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The following is how my extender is coded, followed by the GetSlides routine.
ASP.NET Forums Chaplain Doug 2009
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This is the first time the governor has used these so-called extender bills to make annual cuts.
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Social-services agencies, which typically depend on government funding for 50% to 90% of their revenue, say this is the first time the state budget has been late that the governor hasn't included funding to nonprofits in any so-called extender bills, or emergency appropriations.
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"They had a so-called extender prepared, or draft on Friday," Skelos said.
NY Daily News 2010
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The extender is a femtocell base station that connects to the Ethernet port of a broadband router.
Top Tech News 2009
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The extender is a femtocell base station that connects to the Ethernet port of a broadband router.
Top Tech News 2009
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The extender is a femtocell base station that connects to the Ethernet port of a broadband router.
Top Tech News 2009
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The extender is a femtocell base station that connects to the Ethernet port of a broadband router.
Top Tech News 2009
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There are also a good number of "extender" items that Congress intends to keep in place forever but which expire every two years or so.
The Budget Debate, VI, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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