extender

extend +‎ -er

extender (plural extenders)

1. Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
2. Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
3. 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.

4. (climbing) A runner, or quick-draw. (from sense #2)
5. (linguistics) A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".

• re-extend, reextend, reëxtend

extender (first-person singular present extendo, first-person singular preterite extendi, past participle extendido)

1. Obsolete spelling of estender
2. Misspelling of estender.

Borrowed from Latin extendere, present active infinitive of extendō, or modified from the Old Spanish estender, which may have been inherited.

• IPA^(key): /eɡstenˈdeɾ/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ex‧ten‧der

extender (first-person singular present extiendo, first-person singular preterite extendí, past participle extendido)

1. to extend, to expand

   Synonym: expandir

2. to spread
3. to expand on
4. to stretch

   Synonym: estirar

• extender la mano (“to reach out”)

• extensión
• extenso

• desplegar
• estirar

• “extender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014