extended

«extended» in Mova's school dictionary: made longer in time or length: «an extended holiday» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; verb, past form of extend (extend, extends, extended, extending)

meaning for a pupil

1) Extended means made longer in time or length: «an extended holiday». tree →

2) Stretched out to full length: «with arms extended». tree →

3) Extended is the past of extend: made bigger, longer or reached out. tree →

4) An extended family includes grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, not just parents and children. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in school (extended writing, extended homework time, extending a line in geometry), family life and everyday life (shop hours extended). Phrases: «extended family», «extended deadline», «extended version». It tells the reader something was made larger or longer than before.

examples

• The teacher extended the deadline by two days. tree →
• My extended family meets at Grandma's for big holidays. tree →
• Extend the line until it meets the other side. tree →
• She stood with her arms extended. tree →
• The shop has extended opening hours at weekends. tree →
• We watched the extended version of the film. tree →
• The bridge was extended across the river. tree →
• The right arm was extended, as if pointing onward. tree →

note

Regular verb: extend → extended. Noun: extension. Maths: extending a line segment makes it longer; if a 5 cm line is extended by 3 cm, it becomes 8 cm.

In the corpora

• and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «extended» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.