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Definition: EXTENDER |
EXTENDERNoun1. One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Fine-grained solid substance with low hiding power and low reducing power. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any substance incorporated in wood-base fibre and particle panel material or in an adhesive during manufacture, so as to impart or improve certain properties. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Chemistry | A)a non-reactive substance added to an adhesive by the user, mainly to reduce costs and occasionally to provide body; b)(USA)a substance, generally itself having some adhesive action, added to an adhesive to reduce the amount of primary binder required per unit area. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Generally, an ingredient which increases the bulk or life of a material. (. . . )When using synthetic resin adhesives, an extender(e. g. , rye flour)is added to reduce the cost of gluing or to adjust viscosity. In the manufacture of elastomeric plastics, q. v. , the term is used to describe a non-compatible plasticiser which may be added in limited amounts to a formulation in addition to the compatible plasticiser. It's main purpose is to increase the effectiveness of the compatible plasticiser. At the same time, this addition may also reduce costs, and can modify the properties of the finished compound(1). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Computing | An ascender or a descender. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Any of several colloidal substances of high molecular weight. . . used as a blood or plasma substitute in transfusion for increasing the volume of the circulating blood. . . called also extender. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: EXTENDER |
| Specialty definitions using "EXTENDER": china-clay ♦ GMD Toolbox for Compiler Construction ♦ LABORATORY TECHNICIAN, ARTIFICIAL BREEDING ♦ pasos2, plasma expander. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "EXTENDER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (carry, draw, draw up, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hold out, issue, lay, lay down, lay out, make bigger, make out, obtrude, open, open out, open up, overblow, prolong, put forth, put out, renew, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, string out, unfold, unfurl, widen, write out). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Crewchief replaces the brakes on a KC-10A Extender. |  | F-15 Eagle takes on fuel from a KC-10A Extender. |
 | A KC-10A Extender, with its boom extended. |  | KC-10A Extender. |
 | KC-10s Extender. |  | KC-10 Extender. |
 | Rodeo 2000- 60th Air Mobility Wing KC-10A Extender. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "EXTENDER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXTENDER" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "EXTENDER": extender pigment ♦ switch network controller bus extender. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "EXTENDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjerues (expansive). (various references) | |
Arabic | الماذقة, الباسطة (pasta). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удължител. (various references) | |
Chinese | 增量剂. (various references) | |
Czech | prodlužovaè. (various references) | |
Danish | extender (extender pigment), udstraekningsmiddel, tilsætningsstof (additive, admixture), straekmiddel, fyldstof (ballast, bulk, bulking agent, encrusting substance, extender pigment, filler, incrusting substance, loading, padding, size, sizing), forsætningspigment (extender pigment), additiv (additive). (various references) | |
Dutch | extender (compounded extender for paints), vulstof (extender pigment, filler, loading), vulsel (stuffing), verstrekmiddel, versnijdmiddel, versnijdingsmiddel, uitrekker, uitrekeenheid, toegevoegd middel (additive), bindmiddel (adhesive medium, binder, binding agent, bindingagent, bond, bonding agent, cement, co-solvent, coupling agent, excipient, matrix, thickener, thickeners, thickening agent, thickening agents, vehicle), aanvullend middel (additive), aanlengmiddel. (various references) | |
Finnish | täyteaine (filling), pidennys (extension, prologation, respite), lisäaine (additive), jatkeaine. (various references) | |
French | extenseur (extensor), extendeur diluant, extendeur, succédané du plasma (expander), produit d'extension, produit adjuvant, matière de charge (extender pigment), hampe, diluant, charge (explosive charge), allonge, agent d'extension, adjuvant, additif volumique. (various references) | |
German | Zuschlagstoff (additive), Streckmittel (filler), Länge (length, longitude, footage, tallness), Füllstoff (filler), Füllmittel (osmotic laxative). (various references) | |
Greek | συμβάτης, πληρωτικό υλικό (extender pigment), αραιωτής (reducer, thinner), Βοηθητική ουσία (additive). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מארך (extension rod, lengthener). (various references) | |
Hungarian | töltõanyag. (various references) | |
Italian | estendente, unità di estensione, diluente (diluent, thinner), carica inerte, agente estendente, additivo (additive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extenderay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | haste (stem, rod, stalk, stock), distensor, diluente (attenuant), cargas (extender pigment), agente de extensão, aditivo (minuend). (various references) | |
Russian | расширитель (bougie), наполнитель (filler, stuffer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dodatak hrani. (various references) | |
Spanish | extendedor (extender pigment), rasgo sobresaliente (salience, saliency), diluyente (carrier, cutter stock, diluant, diluent, dilutant, reducer, thinner), carga (burden, load, charge, cargo, weight), aditivo (additive). (various references) | |
Swedish | utdrygningsmedel, tillsatsmedel (dope), tillsatskemikalie (additive), stapel (pile, stack), fyllnadsmedel (extender pigment), fyllmedel (extender pigment, filler, loading). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EXTENDER": extenders. (additional references) | |
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"EXTENDER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entendez, extendere, extense. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EXTENDER" (pronounced e"kste'nder) |
| 5 | -t e' n d er | bartender. |
| 4 | -e' n d er | weekender. |
| 3 | -n d er | Ender, engender, Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bender, binder, blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, contender, coriander, cylinder, defender, Fender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gender, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, meander, minder, offender, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, sender, Sidewinder, slander, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, squander, Stander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-n-r-t-x" | |
-1 letter: entered, exerted, externe. | |
-2 letters: dexter, entree, eterne, extend, extern, needer, rented, retene, teener, tender. | |
-3 letters: deter, ender, enter, exert, rente, terne, treed, treen, trend. | |
-4 letters: deer, deet, dene, dent, dere, dree, erne, need, nerd, next, rede, reed, rend, rent, rete, teed, teen, tend, tern, tree. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, dex, end, ere, ern, nee, net, red. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-n-r-t-x" | |
+1 letter: extenders. | |
+2 letters: exonerated, extermined, overextend. | |
+3 letters: exenterated, expenditure, hyperextend, overextends. | |
+4 letters: expenditures, experimented, exterminated, externalised, externalized, hyperextends, overextended. | |
+5 letters: dexterousness, hyperextended, overextending. | |
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