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ex·tend·ed  (k-stndd)
adj.
1. Stretched or pulled out: an extended telescope.
2. Continued for a long period of time; protracted: had an extended vacation in the Alps.
3. Enlarged or broad in meaning, scope, or influence: an extended sense of the word honest.

ex·tended·ly adv.
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Adj.1.extended - relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations"
long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
2.extended - fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
unextended - not extended or stretched out; "an unextended arm"
3.extended - drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
long - primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
4.extended - beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
figurative, nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
5.extended - large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

extended
adjective 1. lengthened, long, prolonged, protracted, stretched out, drawn-out, unfurled, elongated, unrolled
adjective 3. outstretched, conferred, stretched out, proffered

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ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, "Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion?
He offered large discount--he offered a check(Drawn "to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten: But the Bandersnatch merely extended its neck And grabbed at the Banker again.
It is not a part of the plan of this book to present any extended bibliography, but there are certain reference books to which the student's attention should be called.
 
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