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extender (pluralextenders)

1. One whoextends.
   • 1983 June 2, “'PHYSICIAN EXTENDERS' READY TO FILL A GAP THAT DIDN'T DEVELOP”, inThe New York Times‎^[1]:

     The public has learned to accept the services of physicianextenders as a substitute for a qualified medical doctor, but the medical profession itself will, I daresay, continue to erect substantial barriers to any policy or effort that directly affects income.

   • 2010 November 10, John Caramanica, “Monopoly by Marc Jacobs”, inThe New York Times‎^[2]:

     [Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, anextender of brands, and in very good shape.

2. Any of various substances designed toextend any of several properties of a material.
   • 2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, inThe Atlantic‎^[3]:

     “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheapextender.

3. Any of various components designed toextend thelength of adevice.
4. Any substance added tofood to bulk it out, with a higherprotein content than afiller.

   Soy protein is used as a meatextender.

5. (climbing) Arunner, orquick-draw.
6. (linguistics) Aphrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".

• re-extend,reextend,reëxtend

extender (first-person singular presentextendo,first-person singular preteriteextendi,past participleextendido)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) ofestender; now a common misspelling.
   • 1938,Graciliano Ramos, “O mundo coberto de pennas [The world covered in feathers]”, inVidas Seccas [Barren Lives],Rio de Janeiro:Livraria José Olympio Editora,page175:

     Não conseguiria nuncaextender os ossos numa cama, o unico desejo que tinha.

     She would never be able tostretch her bones on a bed, her only wish.

This spelling coexisted withestender.

Borrowed fromLatinextendere, or modified from theOld Spanishestender, which may have been inherited.

• IPA^(key): /eɡstenˈdeɾ/[eɣ̞s.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
• Rhymes:-eɾ
• Syllabification:ex‧ten‧der

extender (first-person singular presentextiendo,first-person singular preteriteextendí,past participleextendido)

1. toextend, toexpand

   Synonym:expandir

2. tospread
3. toexpand on
4. tostretch

   Synonym:estirar

• desplegar
• estirar

• “extender”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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