# extender
## English
### Etymology

From extend +‎ -er.

### Pron

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### Noun

extender (plural extenders)
* One who extends.
** 1983 June 2, “'PHYSICIAN EXTENDERS' READY TO FILL A GAP THAT DIDN'T DEVELOP”, in The New York Times‎:The public has learned to accept the services of physician extenders as a substitute for a qualified medical doctor, but the medical profession itself will, I daresay, continue to erect substantial barriers to any policy or effort that directly affects income.
** 2010 November 10, John Caramanica, “Monopoly by Marc Jacobs”, in The New York Times‎:[Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, an extender of brands, and in very good shape.
* Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
** 2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic‎:“Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.
* Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
* Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
    Soy protein is used as a meat extender.
* (climbing) A runner, or quick-draw.
* (linguistics) A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".

#### Derived terms

* DOS extender
* physician extender
* range extender
* telextender

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* re-extend, reextend, reëxtend

## Portuguese
### Verb

extender (first-person singular present extendo, first-person singular preterite extendi, past participle extendido)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of estender; now a common misspelling.
** 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O mundo coberto de pennas [The world covered in feathers]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 175:Não conseguiria nunca extender os ossos numa cama, o unico desejo que tinha.She would never be able to stretch her bones on a bed, her only wish.

#### Usage notes

This spelling coexisted with estender.

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extendere, or modified from the Old Spanish estender, which may have been inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɡstenˈdeɾ/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: ex‧ten‧der

### Verb

extender (first-person singular present extiendo, first-person singular preterite extendí, past participle extendido)
* to extend, to expand
    Synonym: expandir
* to spread
* to expand on
* to stretch
    Synonym: estirar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* extender la mano (“to reach out”)

#### Related terms

* extensión
* extenso

### See also

* desplegar
* estirar

### Further reading

* “extender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10