Synonym: annex, annexe, denotation, elongation, extension phone, extension service, file name extension, filename extension, lengthiness, prolongation, propagation, reference, telephone extension, university extension, wing. Similar words: extensive, tension, pension, dimension, dimensions, comprehension, extend, extent. Meaning: [ɪk'stenʃn] 
n. 1. a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt 2. act of expanding in scope; making more widely available 3. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions 4. an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who not enrolled as regular students 5. act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb 6. a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename 7. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to 8. the ability to raise the working leg high in the air 9. amount or degree or range to which something extends 10. an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line 11. an addition to the length of something 12. an addition that extends a main building.
n. 1. a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt 2. act of expanding in scope; making more widely available 3. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions 4. an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who not enrolled as regular students 5. act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb 6. a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename 7. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to 8. the ability to raise the working leg high in the air 9. amount or degree or range to which something extends 10. an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line 11. an addition to the length of something 12. an addition that extends a main building. 
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(61) When we built the extension we had to wall up an old window.
(62) We used so many lights that we needed four extension cords.
(63) He's been granted an extension of the contract for another year.
(64) The extension of the deadline gives us a breathing space.
(65) The extension was built at an oblique angle to the house.
(66) The blame lies with the teachers and, by extension, with the Education Service.
(67) We came up against a lot of problems in the course of building our extension.
(68) The architect's brief is to design an extension that is modern but blends with the rest of the building.
(69) Money for the extension to the gallery came from the sale of old exhibits.
(70) She was given an extension to finish writing her thesis.
(71) This new job is a further extension of his role as a manager.
(72) Who perpetrated that dreadful extension to the front of the building?
(73) A modern extension on the old building would ruin its architectural integrity.
(74) We can get round the problem of space by building an extension.
(75) Both were a generous extension of human decency.
(76) Pringle argues against widespread extension of day care facilities.
(77) Extension to more complicated cases is not difficult.
(78) The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.
(79) You may want to install a few luxuries like a portable television(sentencedict .com), radio / cassette player or a telephone extension.
(80) I urge the administration to find a more appropriate and forthright solution to the budgetary and debt extension issues at hand.
(81) There was -- Diamond interests received a 25-year extension on the contract to manage Old Tucson, without a competitive bid.
(82) And, by extension, does the choice of research design make a difference to the substantive results?
(83) The quadriceps has such great bulk and strength that slight weakness of knee extension is more difficult to demonstrate. 4.
(84) Here the mood is decidedly more downbeat. Structural-adjustment reforms have bitten deep into the agricultural extension service.
(85) Clearly the whole game has a dimension of linear extension which enables a continual process of growth in recognition.
(86) A bog garden is a natural extension of a pool in which moisture loving plants can be grown.
(87) Miami is offering a big contract extension to keep him from leaving campus.
(88) Of course this kind of thoughtful extension is alien to most Highland hotel owners.
(89) Plain radiographs of the cervical spine in flexion and extension will allow recognition of atlantoaxial subluxation and subaxial subluxation.
(90) Lord Mackay appeared to rule out an extension of legal aid to cover defamation cases.
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