Definition of Extend

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Extend

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.

To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.

To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.

To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.

To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

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Extend Quotations

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.
Layne Staley

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.
Mike Krzyzewski

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Marilyn vos Savant

Extend Translations

extend in Afrikaans is grootte
extend in Dutch is omvang, bestek, grootte
extend in Finnish is ojentaa, laajuus
extend in German is erweitern, ausdehnen, erweirtern
extend in Italian is allungare, ampliare, estendersi
extend in Latin is pando, promineo, pertingo, dilato, laxo, tendo
extend in Norwegian is utvide, forlenge
extend in Portuguese is estenda
extend in Spanish is extenderse, acgrandar, alongar, extender, ampliar

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