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extended
1. Stretched out; spread out.
2. Prolonged; continued.
3. Enlarged in influence, meaning, scope, effect, etc.; extensive.
2. Prolonged; continued.
3. Enlarged in influence, meaning, scope, effect, etc.; extensive.
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tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious
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(Greek: smoke; vapor; sooty [extended meaning is carbon dioxide])
(Greek: grace, beauty, kindness; to rejoice at; extended to attractiveness, personal charm)
(Greek: khorde, "gut string" [of a lyre]; used in an extended sense to mean "sinew, flexible rod-shaped organ, string, cord"; Latin: chorda, "related notes in music, string of a musical instrument, cat-gut" via Old French, corde, "rope, string, twist, cord")
(Latin: bark, rind; literally, that which is "stripped off"; used in its extended senses, chief among these being "pertaining to the outer layer of a bodily organ, especially the brain")
(Greek: ring; used in the extended sense of pertaining to the [ring-shaped] cartilage that forms the back and lower part of the laryngeal cavity)
(Greek: cells, cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cells" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow])
(Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate")
(Greek: long; used in extended senses as, "abnormally long"; narrow)
(Latin: band, bandage; bundle, bunch; used in the extended sense of "pertaining to the fascia", a band or sheet of fibrous tissue providing a subcutaneous covering for various parts of the body)
(Greek: egg or eggs; used in an extended sense as the ovum)
(Greek: ovary, egg [literally, "egg-carrier"; extended to mean ovary])
(Latin: poppy; used in extended senses to mean "pertaining to, containing, or derived from opium")
(Latin: wall [of a house], walls; used in the extended sense of "the walls of a cavity or organ of the body")
(Greek: a person who crouches; than extended to a beggar, poor; paupers; modernized meanings: street people, homeless, vagrant, living in poverty)
(Latin: adult, mature; sign of maturity, especially the growth of pubic hair; extended to mean the "pubic bone")
(RFID is being extended in NATO)