Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 72
Extensile (a.) 可延長的；可擴張的 Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. -- Owen.
Extensile (a.) Capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out; "an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule" [syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible, nonextensile, nonprotractile].
Extension (n.) 伸展；伸長；擴大 [U] [（+of）]；延長；延期；緩期 [U] [C]；延長部分；擴大部分；增設部分 [C] The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
Extension (n.) (Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
Extension (n.) (Logic & Metaph.) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of {intension}.
Extension (n.) (Logic & Metaph.) The class or set of objects to which a term refers; -- contrasted with {intension}, the logical specification which defines members of a class, being the set of attributes which are necessary and sufficient to recognize an object as a member of the class.
The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects. -- Abp. Thomson.
Extension (n.) (Surg.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
Extension (n.) (Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
Extension (n.) (Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
{Counter extension}. (Surg.) See under {Counter}.
{Extension table}, A table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.
Extension (n.) A mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an extension of the loan".
Extension (n.) Act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need".
Extension (n.) The spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions [syn: {propagation}, {extension}].
Extension (n.) An educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students [syn: {extension}, {extension service}, {university extension}].
Extension (n.) Act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb [ant: {flexion}, {flexure}].
Extension (n.) A string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename; "most applications provide extensions for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS" [syn: {extension}, {filename extension}, {file name extension}].
Extension (n.) The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos" [syn: {reference}, {denotation}, {extension}].
Extension (n.) The ability to raise the working leg high in the air; "the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension"; "good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability".
Extension (n.) Amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the wire has an extension of 50 feet" [syn: {extension}, {lengthiness}, {prolongation}].
Extension (n.) An additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line [syn: {extension}, {telephone extension}, {extension phone}].
Extension (n.) An addition to the length of something [syn: {elongation}, {extension}].
Extension (n.) An addition that extends a main building [syn: {annex}, {annexe}, {extension}, {wing}].
Extension, () Filename extension..
Extension, () A feature or piece of code which extends a program's functionality, e.g. a plug-in. (1997-06-21)
Extension, () comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extension, () Among the French, a similar agreement is known by the name of atermoiement. Merl. Rep. mot Atermoiement.
Extensional (a.) 外延的；客觀現實的，具體的 Having great extent.
Extensional (a.) Defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies.
Extensional (a.) Extensional properties, e.g. extensional equality, relate to the "black-box" behaviour of an object, i.e. how its output depends on its input. The opposite is intensional which concerns how the object is implemented.
Extensionist (n.) One who favors or advocates extension.
Extensive (a.) 廣大的；廣闊的；廣泛的；大規模的；大量的；龐大的 Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.
Extensive (a.) Capable of being extended. [Obs.]
Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. -- Boyle.
Extensive (a.) 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" [syn: {extensive}, {extended}].
Extensive (a.) Broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: {across-the- board}, {all-embracing}, {all-encompassing}, {all-inclusive}, {blanket(a)}, {broad}, {encompassing}, {extensive}, {panoptic}, {wide}].
Extensive (a.) Of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type" [ant: {intensive}].
Extensively (adv.) 廣大地；廣泛地 To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
Extensively (adv.) In a widespread way; "oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest".
Extensiveness (n.) 廣大；大範圍 The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
Extensiveness (n.) Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness; "the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness"; "the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it" [syn: largeness, extensiveness].
Extensometer (n.) 伸展計 An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force. [syn: {extensimeter}].
Extensor (n.) (Anat.) 【解】伸肌A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.
Extensor (n.) A skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part [syn: extensor muscle, extensor] [ant: flexor, flexor muscle].
Extensure (n.) 伸展；伸長；擴大 [U] [（+of）]；延長；延期；緩期 [U] [C] Extension. [R.] -- Drayton.
Extent (a.) Extended.
Extent (n.) Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.
Extent (n.) Degree; measure; proportion.
Extent (n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.
Extent (n.) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
Extenuated (imp. & p. p.) of Extenuate
Extenuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extenuate
Extenuate (v. t.) 減輕，使人原諒；企圖減輕（罪行等）；為……找藉口 To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate.
Extenuate (v. t.) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
Extenuate (v. i.) To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
Extenuate (a.) Thin; slender. [Obs.]
Extenuate (v.) Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: {extenuate}, {palliate}, {mitigate}].
Extenuation (n.) The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
Extenuator (n.) One who extenuates.
Extenuatory (a.) Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Exterior (a.) External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
Exterior (a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
Exterior (a.) Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
Exterior (n.) The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
Exterior (n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
Exteriority (n.) Surface; superficies; externality.
Exteriorly (adv.) Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.
Exterminated (imp. & p. p.) of Exterminate
Exterminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exterminate
Exterminate (v. t.) 根除，滅絕；消滅 To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. -- Barrow.
Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
To explode and exterminate rank atheism. -- Bentley.
Exterminate (v. t.) (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities.
Exterminate (v.) Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" [syn: {exterminate}, {kill off}].
Exterminate (v.) Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {extirpate}, {root out}, {exterminate}].
Extermination (n.) 根除，滅絕；消滅 [U] The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
Extermination (n.) (Math.) Elimination. [R.]
Extermination (n.) Complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: {extinction}, {extermination}].
Extermination (n.) The act of exterminating [syn: {extermination}, {liquidation}].
Exterminator (n.) [C] 根除者；消滅者；滅鼠藥；殺蟲劑 One who, or that which, exterminates. -- Buckle.
Exterminator (n.) Someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) [syn: {exterminator}, {terminator}, {eradicator}].
Exterminatory (a.) 消滅的；根絕的；消滅性的 Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." -- Burke.
Extermine (v. t.) To exterminate; to destroy. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Extern (a.) External; outward; not inherent.
Extern (n.) A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.
Extern (n.) Outward form or part; exterior.
External (a.) Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.
External (a.) Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.
External (a.) Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral.
External (a.) Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
External (a.) Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.
External (a.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
External (n.) Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.
Externalism (n.) The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.
Externalism (n.) That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.
Externalistic (a.) Pertaining to externalism
Externality (n.) State of being external; exteriority
Externality (n.) separation from the perceiving mind.
Externalize (v. t.) To make external; to manifest by outward form.
Externally (adv.) In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
Externe (n.) An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients.
Exterraneous (a.) Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.
Exterritorial (a.) Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction.
Exterritoriality (n.) The state of being beyond the limits of a country.
Exterritoriality (n.) The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.
Extersion (n.) The act of wiping or rubbing out.
Extilled (imp. & p. p.) of Extill
Extilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extill
Extill (v. i.) To drop or distill.
Extillation (n.) Distillation.
Extimulate (v. t.) To stimulate.
Extimulation (n.) Stimulation.
Extinct (a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
Extinct (v. t.) To cause to be extinct.
Extinction (n.) The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.
Extinction (n.) State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.
Extine (n.) The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.
Extinguished (imp. & p. p.) of Extinguish
Extinguishing (p pr. & vb. n.) of Extinguish
Extinguish (v. t.) 熄滅，消滅，償清 To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
Extinguish (v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
Extinguish (v.) Put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" [syn: {snuff out}, {extinguish}].
Extinguish (v.) Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" [syn: {snuff out}, {blow out}, {extinguish}, {quench}] [ant: {ignite}, {light}].
Extinguish (v.) Extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" [syn: {stub out}, {crush out}, {extinguish}, {press out}].
Extinguish (v.) Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: {extinguish}, {eliminate}, {get rid of}, {do away with}].
Extinguish (v.) Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: {eliminate}, {annihilate}, {extinguish}, {eradicate}, {wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}].
Extinguishable (a.) 可熄滅的 Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.
Extinguishable (a.) Capable of being extinguished or killed; "an extinguishable fire"; "hope too is extinguishable" [ant: {inextinguishable}].
Extinguisher (n.) 熄滅者 [器] One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
Extinguisher (n.) A manually operated device for extinguishing small fires [syn: {fire extinguisher}, {extinguisher}, {asphyxiator}]
Extinguishment (n.) 熄滅；絕滅 The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.
Extinguishment (n.) (Law) The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
Extirp (v. t.) To extirpate.
Extirpable (a.) Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant.
Extirpate (v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.
Extirpate (v. t.) To pull up by the stem or root.
Extirpate (v. t.) To destroy completely.
Extirpate (v. t.) To remove by surgery. Extirpate derives from Latin ex(s)tirpare, "to tear up by the root, hence to root out, to extirpate," from ex-, "from" + stirps, "the stalk or stem or a tree or other plant, with the roots."
Extirpated (imp. & p. p.) of Extirpate
Extirpating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extirpate
Extirpation (n.) The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
Extirpative (a.) Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out.
Extirpator (n.) One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.
Extirpatory (a.) Extirpative.