Extend vs Borden - What's the difference?

extend | borden |

As a verb extend

is to increase in extent.

As a proper noun borden is

As a noun borden is

extend

English

Verb

(en verb)

To increase in extent.

To possess a certain extent.

To cause to increase in extent.

To cause to last for a longer period of time.

To straighten (a limb).

To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

to extend sympathy to the suffering

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

to extend liquors

(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

Synonyms

* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widen

Derived terms

* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extent

Anagrams

borden

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

(surname)

Noun

(en noun)

* 2008 , " Huet trade all about $$", The Gazette (Montreal), 1 March 2008:

It's all about the Benjamins - although in view of a soaring loonie, player agents wish it were about the Bordens .

* 2009 , Lane Bristow, Last Stand at Coyote Yelp Pass: The Tragic Cowboy Memoirs of Bucky Laroo , AuthorHouse (2009), ISBN 9781434383358, page 57:

I tried to tell him that greedy Canadians were supposed to be all about the Bordens , but he was too busy preparing his fourth-quarter mission statement to pay attention to such petty nationalistic details.

* 2009 , Karl Meade, Odd Jobs , iUniverse (2009), ISBN 9780595534807, page 45:

I wrapped the wad of small bills inside about thirty Bordens from Luc's bag.

English eponyms