Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“extending” is a form of

extend

/ɛkˈstɛnd/ verb

Forms extends extending extended

  1. verb (intransitive) To increase in extent.
  2. verb (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. “The desert extended for miles in all directions.”
  3. verb (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
  4. verb (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
  5. verb (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
  6. verb (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply. “to extend sympathy to the suffering”
  7. verb To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions. “There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.”
  8. verb (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

Synonyms

run inherit enlarge expand increase lengthen stretch widen broaden go pass lead cover continue offer exsert stretch out put out hold out stretch forth poke out reach out prolong protract draw out unfold gallop strain carry

Etymology

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”).

Webster’s 1913

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

Etymology [L. extendere, extentum, extensum; ex out + tendere to stretch. See Trend.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “extend”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “extend” (best matches first).

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