amerikai:
brit:
1. To increase in extent.
2. To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
The desert extended for miles in all directions.
3. To cause to increase in extent.
4. To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. To straighten (a limb).
6. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
to extend credit to a valued customer
7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
8. To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
Szinonimák: inherit
10. To reenlist for a further period.