extensionn.
/ɛkˈstɛnʃən/ 1. The action of forcibly stretching or straining; strained state or condition.† a. Stretching or pulling out to greater length. Obsolete.† c. The action of straining the capacity of a vessel, etc.; distension, swelling. Obsolete.† d. Straining (of the voice). Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > of Christ on the cross
extension1526
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun] > making long or longer > drawing out to greater length > forcibly or tightly
strainingc1400
extension1526
intention1580
stretch1600
intension1603
distensiona1640
distractionc1720
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMii Thynke on his extensyon, or paynfull strayninge on the crosse.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 207/2 The Paralisis..and extention of the Synnues.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 105 That is an extension of the muscles and organs of motion maintaining the body at length. View more context for this quotation
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxii. 255 Removed from their places by forcible Compression or Extension.
1824 T. Tredgold Pract. Ess. Strength of Cast Iron p. x Experiments on the extension of bodies..when the strain exceeds the elastic force.
b. Surgery. (See quot. 1860.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > setting bones or dislocations > extension or traction
extension1617
counter-extending1874
counter-extension1874
traction1885
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 167 You must vse extention almost to euery Dislocation.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vii. i. 467 The extension made, the extenders are to be loosened gently.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) When the fractured parts recede from one another, some degree of Extension is necessary.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Extension, the pulling of a fractured limb in a direction away from the trunk, in order to obviate retraction of the lower fragments; also applied to similar treatment in dislocations.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Extension apparatus, In case of hip-joint disease extension is employed..to prevent the contact of the two diseased surfaces.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension
extensionc1400
distension1607
distending1633
ballooning1848
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 98 Þat may be knowen..bi reednesse & extencioun of þe face.
a1546 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (1572) iv. iv. 78 b An heuinesse with extencion or thrustinge out of the body.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §686 Fulnesse of Meat..causeth an Extension of the Stomacke.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §106. 173 This Powder you may use in all Diseases where Humors do offend..or extention above Nature.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > forced voice > straining
intension1603
extension1655
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (v. 7) i. 496 We take crying for extension of voice.
e. The utmost lengthening of a horse's stride at a particular pace.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > stride > length of stride > lengthening of stride
extension1951
1951 G. A. Bennett Let's All enjoy Horse Show xii. 107 These exercises are primarily intended to test the horse's extensions.
1953 G. Brooke Introd. Riding vii. 72 Extension signifies that a horse is taking its fullest stride at whatever pace it may be moving.
2.
a. The action of straightening out, or of placing at full length.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > extension or stretching
streekinga1340
stretchingc1375
outstretchinga1387
stretching out1530
splaying1531
extending?1541
outreaching1587
extension1615
outstretchedness1674
protraction1681
exporrection1697
outstretch1828
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun]
extension1615
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 741 The second motion of the Muscle is Extention, which is not proper but aduentitious or accidentall: for when the contracted Muscle is extended it is loosened by another and not by it selfe.
1667 E. King in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 426 You may perceive a feeble motion of flexion and extension.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vii. 174 The levers..are capable of performing..flexion and extension; a limb is extended, when it is straightened out.
b. The action of adding up a horizontal line of figures or computing a sub-total, as on an invoice; the figure thus obtained. Cf. extend v. 2c.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > process of calculating
accountinga1387
workingc1400
work1557
approximation1695
calculating1710
composition1827
figuring1859
extension1861
complementation1946
1861 F. H. Carter Book-keeping iii. 40 The book..should be ruled with the debtor and creditor columns on the same page,..no necessity existing for an extension of periodical balances.
1891 G. Van de Linde Bookkeeping iii. 88 An extension money column for the total Interest charged.
c. Ballet. The stretching of the leg at an angle from the body.
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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements
entrechat1706
pirouette1706
sissonne1706
batterie1712
cabriole1753
ballonné1760
balancé?1770
brisé1786
ballotté1802
rond de jambe1824
petit battement1828
battement1830
elevation1830
fouetté1830
jeté1830
changement de pied1840
développé1888
temps1890
pas de ciseaux1892
plié1892
changement1905
beat1913
ciseaux1913
glissé1913
ouvert1913
allegro1914
pas de chat1914
pas de cheval1916
soubresaut1916
grand jeté1919
lift1921
toe-dancing1924
pointwork1925
posé1927
jeté en tournant1930
tour1930
extension1934
tour jeté1935
fondu1939
retiré1941
chaîné1946
soutenu1947
passé1948
saut1948
contretemps1952
promenade1953
piqué1954
gargouillade1957
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Extension, in fancy dancing, a posture with one leg extended.
1952 L. Kersley & J. Sinclair Dict. Ballet Terms 64 An ‘extended’ position can look beautiful with dancers of the jarreté type who are loose enough to sustain such a position without straining too noticeably and are therefore said to have a good ‘extension’.
1957 Ballet Ann. 11 130/1 She has some lovely high, sustained extensions.
3. The reaching or stretching (the arm, hand) out or forth; protrusion (of the tongue, etc.).
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > specific part of body > in some direction or purposefully
protrusion1646
extension1741
poking1811
outputting1883
outshoot1897
1741 W. Oldys et al. Betterton's Hist. Eng. Stage v. 67 This Extension of the Hand [upwards] sometimes signifies Pacification.
4. Law. The ‘extending’ of a protest: see extend v. 9c.
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1889 Case Bp. Lincoln (1891) 51 On which day Brooks and Jenkins..in extension of such their Protest alleged, etc.
5. The fact or condition of extending or reaching to a certain distance or in a certain direction.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun]
space1521
excourse?c1550
extendure1610
extendedness1674
expansion1690
extension1790
development1807
extensitya1834
1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile I. i. iii. 52 We entered a large and thick wood of palm-trees, whose greatest extension seemed to be south by east.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiii. 309 Showing..the former extension of the Esquimaux race to the higher north.
6. † b. Mode of extending superficially. Obsolete.† c. Extensibility; capability of being extended (by dilution). Obsolete.
a. The action or process of spreading out in area; the condition of being so spread out. †Also concrete. A ‘stretch’, expanse (of country).
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out
spreadinga1250
spreadinga1382
outspreading?c1425
stenting1507
expansure1598
extensure1604
expansion1646
dispansion1658
extension1684
expanding1844
outspread1848
splaying1881
fanning-out1883
the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something
spacea1382
widenessa1382
continuance1398
field1547
sheet1593
universe1598
main1609
reach1610
expansion1611
extent1627
champaign1656
fetch1662
mass1662
expanse1667
spread1712
run1719
width1733
acre1759
sweep1767
contiguity1785
extension1786
stretch1829
breadths1839
outspread1847
outstretch1858
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. vii. 86 This Foundation of the Earth upon the Waters, or extension of it above the Waters, doth agree to the antediluvian earth.
1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland (1788) II. 76 This extension of wild country we looked at with regret.
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1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 2 A plaine superficies, is the shortest extension..from one lyne to an other.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > extension or stretching > capacity for
extendibility1477
extension1594
extensibilitya1640
extensiveness1701
extensibleness1727
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] > elasticity > capability of being stretched
extendibility1477
extension1594
extensibilitya1640
tensibility1676
extensiveness1701
extensibleness1727
distensibility1758
stretch1875
stretchability1940
stretchiness1963
1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 45 in Jewell House That infinite extention of the glasse of Antimonie.
a. The amount of space throughout which anything extends; size, extent. Obsolete.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun]
greatness1381
measurea1382
quantitya1387
muchnessa1398
sizea1400
largec1400
micklec1400
moisonc1400
of suingc1400
bignessc1475
assize1481
proportions1481
bodya1500
dimension1529
measuring1529
wideness1535
bind1551
corporance1570
magnitude1570
mickledom1596
amplitude1599
breadth1609
extendure1613
extension1614
extent1623
extensure1631
dimense1632
dimensity1655
bulkiness1674
bulksomeness1674
admeasurement1754
calliper1819
acreage1846
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 14 There were..some Monarchique States, but not of any large extension perhaps.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 187 The quantity or extension of the Body of the Air..commonly called the Atmosphere.
a1693 R. Hooke in Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. (1693) 202 Though I kept it..red-hot..yet it seem'd not at all to have diminish'd its extention.
1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. x. 204 The City of London is of a vast extention.
b. Physics and metaphorical. The property of being extended or of occupying space; spatial magnitude.
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the world > space > [noun] > space occupied by something > fact or property of occupying space
extension1624
occupancy1833
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [noun] > matter or substance > properties > extension
extension1624
extense1630
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 162 As if locall extension..and other..sensible properties could not..be severed from his owne bodie.
1647 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. iii. iv. 35 Extension That's infinite implies a contradiction.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. iv. 50 The Extension of Body, being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, moveable Parts; and the Extension of Space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable and immoveable Parts.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 270 Extension is another property of matter inseparable from its existence.
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. x. 202 Our perceptions of the specific extension of the body—its size and shape.
c. An extended body or space.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > an extended body or space
extent1627
extension1739
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [noun] > matter or substance > properties > extension > extended body
extension1739
extent1871
1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. ii. 58 If..any finite extension be infinitely divisible,..a finite extension contains an infinite number of parts.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vi. 84 A shrine is raised to thee..The sensitive extension of the world.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxvii. 160 The whole primary objects of sight, then, are colours, and extensions, and forms or figures of extension.
8.
a. Of immaterial things: The range over which anything extends; degree of extensiveness.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of
ampleness1509
reach1546
compass1555
zodiac1560
extent1593
range1599
verge1599
extension1604
latitude1605
extendure1610
point-blanka1616
comprisement1640
comprisurea1641
virge1640
tour1699
purview1751
gamut1753
sweep1781
diapason1851
carry1859
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 293 The extension or varietie [of the obiects of delight] taketh away a certaine distastfull loathsomenesse which one kind of vniforme pleasure draweth with it.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 21 This tong is of that extension at this present that it reacheth from Suiserland..ouer all ancient Germany.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xvii. §26. 330 A Christian City cannot be excommunicated, for a Christian City is a Christian Church..and of the same extension.
1761 Jenyns Immort. Soul i. 123 Rate not th' extension of the human mind By the Plebeian standard of mankind.
1782 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) xi. 36 The same extension of mind which gives the excellence of genius.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) Introd. §7 The extension of Logic as a Science is determined by its necessities as an Art.
b. esp. in Logic. Of a term or concept: Its range as measured by the number of objects which it denotes or contains under it. Opposed to intension or comprehension.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > extent or extension of meaning > [noun]
wideness?a1425
extent1656
extension1725
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [noun] > logical extension
extent1656
extension1725
denotation1843
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. iii. 311 God's Perfections are infinite both in extention and intention.]
1725 I. Watts Logick i. iii. 54 The Extension of an universal Idea regards all the particular Kinds and single Beings that are contained under it... So a Bowl, in its Extension, includes a wooden Bowl, a brass Bowl, etc.
1725 I. Watts Logick iii. ii. §2 In all affirmative propositions, the predicate has no greater extension than the subject; for its extension is restrained by the subject.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic iv. 66 It denotes a number of objects..This is its Quantity of Extension.
1876 W. S. Jevons Logic 22 War-screw-steam-ship is a still narrower term, that is, has much less extension.
9. Enlargement.
a. Increase in length; prolongation, lengthening; spec. in a camera, the distance by which the front part carrying the lens can be drawn away from the back part carrying the photo-sensitive surface. Also attributive.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun] > making long or longer
prolongation?a1425
lengthingc1480
longation1598
extendure1610
production1658
elongation1676
lengthening1748
extension1796
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasec1374
dilatationc1400
larging?a1425
magnification?a1425
bredingc1440
ampliation1509
enlarginga1513
dilating1532
ampliating1541
amplification1546
amplifying1553
propagation1563
enlargement1564
widening1569
growth1587
dilation1598
expatiation1612
diduction1634
expansion1635
extendinga1649
dispansion1658
elargement1680
expatiating1708
explicating1730
aggrandizement1772
extension1839
expanse1860
aggrandization1929
1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 280 Some small increase of distances between squadrons may be permitted..and whatever extension is thereby occasioned, will be immediately corrected.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxiv. 452 A considerable extension is given to the limestone.
1880 Hipkins in Grove Dict. Music II. 719/1 Broadwood..having carried the compass of the grand piano up to F, found that the wrestplank was so much weakened by this extension that [etc.].
1893 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 3 Mar. 381/1 With this form of lens system there can be only one definite extension of camera..in which the entire system is aplanatic.
1958 Newnes Compl. Amateur Photogr. xxiii. 199 Miniature cameras..use extension tubes..between the lens and the camera body.
b. concrete. An extended portion; esp. an additional section, a prolongation (of a railway, or the like). Also (originally U.S.), an addition to (esp. the rear of) a house or other building, usually not so high as the main building; an annex.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > extension of limits or boundaries > an extended portion
expatiation1612
extension1852
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > additional or separate part
penthousea1400
wing1523
member1601
annexation1611
additionc1638
adject1784
annexe1829
extension1852
out-quarter1888
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > additional portion
extension1852
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > forming part of a system > types of
branch line1825
sideline1831
stem1832
light rail1836
suburban1839
branch railway1840
main line1841
spurring1842
local line1843
trunk line1843
extension1852
feeder1855
main trunk1858
loop-line1859
loop1863
spur1878
main1886
spur line1924
1852 Congress. Globe 24 Mar. 845/2 A statement of the materials to be used in the construction..of the proposed extension [of the Capitol].
1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. cxxxiii An Act to alter the Line of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway.
1863 Bradshaw's Railway Man. §288. 271 By subsequent acts, an extension from Chepstow to Grange Court was authorised.
1867 [see extension room n. at Compounds 5]. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 300 The Alpine Flora occupies the extension southwards of the Arctic regions.
1889 Cent. Mag. Mar. 781/1 They were making beds together in the extension.
1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) A dining-room extension.
1891 Bradshaw's Railway Man. §179. 231 The extension was opened for traffic on the 1st of March 1880.
1903 R. Hall Pine Grove House 12 The tin roof blew off the extension one windy night.
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c. Grammar. A word or words serving to amplify a subject or predicate; also an extended form (of a word) produced by the addition of a suffix.
d. Enlargement in duration. spec. Permission for the sale of alcoholic drinks until a later time than is usual at a particular place. Also attributive, as extension night. extension of time: (Commerce) the concession by a creditor of a later date than that stipulated for the payment of a debt. Also in Law, a grant of additional time for the fulfilment of legal formalities.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging
continuancec1374
prorogationc1400
prolongation?a1425
training1440
lengthingc1480
enlonging1509
prolonging1528
protraction1535
protract of time1536
productionc1540
trait1545
lengthening1574
continuation1587
prolongment1593
conserving1610
extensiona1631
wire-drawing1640
continuing1643
spinning1644
permansion1646
society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in provisions > in liquor > license or permission
late licence1873
propination1886
off-licence1891
on-licence1891
extension1923
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 389 This Better Resurrection is..an extention, even of that eternity of happinesse.
1880 Hipkins in Grove Dict. Music II. 722/1 In 1835 Pierre Erard obtained an extension of his patent.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xvi. 213 We will toddle along to Ciro's after dinner. It's an extension night, isn't it?
1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace lxiv. 522 I've seen enough alcohol drunk to-night to float a company. And I hear this is what you call your extension night, and you keep it up till two o'clock.
1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Diary 15 Mar. in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 200 About 200 people there, all busily tucking into beer and sandwiches, though it was only 4.30 pm—they had got an extension for the day.
1965 New Statesman 14 May 753/1 To mark the sense of public joy.., the nightclubs in Bonn have got a late extension until 11 p.m.
1967 Listener 7 Sept. 297/2 At Bath,..where the pubs normally shut at 10.30, they all have an extension till 11.
e. Enlargement in area.
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1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. cxxv. (title) An Act for..the Extension of the Boundaries of the said Borough.
1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) xxii. 520 The extension of the shell is entirely effected by the margin of the mantle.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 581 When the normal cambium has begun its growth at the outer side of the ring of wood, radial extension..begins in a middle layer.
f. Enlargement in scope or operation.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in scope
extension1590
extendmenta1613
prorogationa1626
extense1630
extendinga1649
extent1657
widening1677
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 181v Which conclusion is diuersly..extended..The first extension is, that [etc.].
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 222 in Justice Vindicated The Sacriledge and extention of the civil Jurisdiction in giving the civil Magistrate licence to take cognizance of the publique Liturgy.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1712 I. 11 What no child..could produce, without an extension of its faculties.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. v. 164 The great extension of agriculture that followed the re-establishment of peace.
1853 O. Gordon in Report Recomm. Oxf. Univ. Comm. 198 I look for the extension of the University to the poor.
1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. i. 7 A question whether..the extension of human knowledge really leads to an extension of human happiness.
g. Short for university extension n. at university n. Compounds 2. Frequently attributive, as extension course, extension lecture, extension lecturer, extension student. Also transferred and figurative.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > lecturer > extension lecturer
extension lecturer1890
University Extender1893
1890 H. J. Mackinder & M. E. Sadler Univ. Extension i. 37 Cambridge Extension Lecturers do much of the work at University College, Nottingham.
1890 H. J. Mackinder & M. E. Sadler Univ. Extension ii. 79 Four Extension students.
1890 H. J. Mackinder & M. E. Sadler Univ. Extension iii. 92 The towns which find it most difficult to raise funds for Extension Lectures are generally those for which an experienced lecturer is most needed.
1892 E. J. James in Proc. First Ann. Meeting Nat. Conf. on Univ. Extension (Philadelphia) 29–31 Dec. 101 There is no greater opportunity of showing his skill open to the Extension lecturer than is open to him in the conducting of a class [etc.].
1934 C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry vi. 29 Life for the average child of the twentieth century becomes an endless series of extension-lectures on everything under the sun.
1936 C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love iii. v. 144 The roles of poet and extension lecturer are no longer habitually doubled.
1936 C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love iii. v. 142 It was the tendency of the age to make every lengthy poem something of an encyclopedia... It may be thought that this extension-lecture function of the medieval poets has nothing to do with their poethood.
1959 H. Nielsen Fifth Caller xii. 178 His name was on the roster of an extension course in anthropology.
h. A subsidiary telephone, loudspeaker, etc., connected to, but placed at a distance from, the main instrument; also, the number of such a telephone. Frequently attributive.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
microtelephone1879
field telephone1880
telephone extension1881
pay telephone1886
home telephone1893
substation1897
extension1906
railophone1911
dial phone1917
payphone1919
dial telephone1921
autophone1922
mobile telephone1930
viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
keitai1998
burner2002
1906 Ann. Rep. Amer. Teleph. & Telegr. Co. 14 There have been developed to a substantial extent new classes of service..such as..extension sets.
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 204/1 Telephone Parts…80-ohm Extension Bell.
1914 A. B. Smith & W. L. Campbell Automatic Teleph. iii. 82 Arrangements for connecting up a wall telephone with an extension.
1924 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms 85 Extension bell, an additional bell arranged to ring at the same time as the ordinary telephone or other bell.
1924 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms 85 Extension lines, lines radiating over a telephone installation from a private switchboard to the various extension instruments.
1928 Delineator July 78 Extension telephones are important in many other ways.
1959 A. Lejeune Crowded & Dangerous v. 56 You ring the War Office and ask for this extension.
1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman iv. 66 She enjoyed owning the extension more than the actual telephone.
1966 N. Freeling Dresden Green i. 16 There was a record-player with an extension speaker.
1970 A. Price Labyrinth Makers ix. 125 Audley..[made] a reversed call to the department... Extension 28 eventually brought him Stocker.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. (In sense 1b.)
extension apparatus n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 818/2 Extension-apparatus, an instrument designed to counteract the natural tendency of the muscles to shorten when a limb has been fractured or dislocated.
extension splint n.
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1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Extension splint.
C2. (In sense 2.)
extension motion n.
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1859 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) i. §4. 7 In order to supple the soldier..the following extension motions will be practised.
C3. (In sense 9a.)
extension ladder n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 818/2 Extension-ladder, a ladder having a movable section, which is projected in prolongation of the main section.
extension pedal n.
extension table n.
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1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 202 One of the remarkable articles..is an extension table.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Extension table, a table that can readily be extended or contracted in length.
1876 J. S. Ingram Centennial Expos. xi. 382 From Crete, Illinois, we saw some very handsome extension-tables, the extra leaves of which were packed away in grooves in the legs when not in use.
1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver v. 53 The dining-room just holds, by a squeeze, the extension-table and four chairs.
C4.
extension bag n. U.S. a bag that can be extended.
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1897 Outing 30 386/1 Utensils and food for two days in an extension bag.
1904 Delineator Oct. 547 With the genial season arrived every kind of drummer. They came with extension bags filled with samples.
extension lens n. a lens that may be used in a combination to increase its focal length (see quot.).
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1902 Nature 17 July 280/1 The replacement of the back component by a lens of greater focal length, increasing the focal length of the objective by about 50 per cent. we referred to some time ago, the alternative back lens being known as an ‘extension lens’.
C5. (In sense 9b.)
extension room n.
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1867 F. H. Ludlow Brace of Boys 288 He heard an earnest, boyish voice in the extension-room.
extension top n.
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1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 1/2 Extension Top Phaetons.
1887 A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 92 A comfortable extension top might be raised at will to protect the driver from sun or storm.
Draft additions March 2004
attributive. Designating an electrical cable designed to be attached to the end of an existing cable (on a telephone, appliance, etc.) in order to provide additional length. Frequently in extension cord, extension lead.
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1918 F. A. Olds in Amer. City Nov. 366/2 The pictures can be shown in the handsome brick schoolhouse or the simple wooden one, and the equipment has long extension cords, which can be led thru a door or a window into any building.
1928 Times 17 Apr. 5/3 The twisted flexible wire that is so often used for extension leads.
1979 Amateur Photographer 10 Jan. 73/2 It's..dangerous, and illegal, to have permanent power points in a bathroom, so you must reel in an extension cable each time so you can use your enlarger, safelights, etc.
1998 Skydiving Mar. 42/2 There are no showers, but the Verners welcome camping. Restrooms are available and the DZ can provide electrical power via an extension cord.
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