All English words - page 1866

Meanings of Extending:

adjective

(of a device) able to be lengthened or spread out.

Usage examples:

A case with wheels and an extending handle

verb

Cause to cover a wider area; make larger.

Usage examples:

The car park has been extended

Meanings of Extends:

verb

Cause to cover a wider area; make larger.

Usage examples:

The car park has been extended

Meanings of Extensibility:

noun

The ability to be extended or stretched.

Usage examples:

This process considerably diminishes the extensibility of the material

Meanings of Extensible:

adjective

Able to be extended or stretched; extendable.

Usage examples:

In a second, she was out of the car, extensible baton in hand

Meanings of Extensile:

adjective

Capable of being stretched out or protruded.

Usage examples:

We investigated the results of combined acetabular fractures that were treated through the extensil…

Meanings of Extension:

noun

A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it.

Usage examples:

The railway's southern extension

Meanings of Extensions:

noun

A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it.

Usage examples:

The railway's southern extension

Meanings of Extensive:

adjective

Covering or affecting a large area.

Usage examples:

An extensive garden

Meanings of Extensively:

adverb

In a way that covers or affects a large area.

Usage examples:

The house was extensively damaged by the fire

Meanings of Extensometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the deformation of a material under stress.

Usage examples:

Instrumentation and monitoring within the tunnels will be effected through such means as inclinomet…

Meanings of Extensor:

noun

A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.

Usage examples:

The limb is supplied with a single extensor muscle and a single flexor, all other joints are consid…

Meanings of Extensors:

noun

A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.

Usage examples:

The limb is supplied with a single extensor muscle and a single flexor, all other joints are consid…

Meanings of Extent:

noun

The area covered by something.

Usage examples:

An enclosure ten acres in extent

Meanings of Extents:

noun

The area covered by something.

Usage examples:

An enclosure ten acres in extent

Meanings of Extenuate:

verb

Cause (an offence) to seem less serious.

Usage examples:

Even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence

Meanings of Extenuated:

verb

Cause (an offence) to seem less serious.

Usage examples:

Even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence

Meanings of Extenuates:

verb

Cause (an offence) to seem less serious.

Usage examples:

Even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence

Meanings of Extenuating:

adjective

(of a factor or situation) serving to lessen the seriousness of an offence.

Usage examples:

Library staff will waive fines where there are genuine extenuating circumstances

verb

Cause (an offence) to seem less serious.

Usage examples:

Even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence

Meanings of Extenuation:

noun

The action of lessening the seriousness of guilt or an offence.

Usage examples:

No plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime

Meanings of Extenuations:

noun

The action of lessening the seriousness of guilt or an offence.

Usage examples:

No plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime

Meanings of Exterior:

adjective

Forming, situated on, or relating to the outside of something.

Usage examples:

Exterior and interior walls

noun

The outer surface or structure of something.

Usage examples:

A jar with floral designs on the exterior

Meanings of Exteriorise:

verb

Make exterior; give exterior form to.

Usage examples:

What the greeks did do was exteriorize their intellectual life, make it convivial and explicit

Meanings of Exteriorised:

verb

Make exterior; give exterior form to.

Usage examples:

What the greeks did do was exteriorize their intellectual life, make it convivial and explicit

Meanings of Exteriorising:

verb

Make exterior; give exterior form to.

Usage examples:

What the greeks did do was exteriorize their intellectual life, make it convivial and explicit

Meanings of Exteriority:

noun

The quality of being outside something or someone

Usage examples:

This branch of philosophy emphasizes the distinction between exteriority and our inner life, what m…