Extend vs Piecen - What's the difference?
extend | piecen |
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 increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
To join; piece (together); fay.
To extend by adding a part or parts.
*1887 , The Twentieth century: Volume 22 :
*1904 , The Outlook: Volume 76 :
(weaving) To join broken threads or ends in spinning.
In transitive terms the difference between extend and piecen
is that extend is to straighten (a limb) while piecen is to extend by adding a part or parts.As verbs the difference between extend and piecen
is that extend is to increase in extent while piecen is to join; piece (together); fay.extend
English
Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors
Synonyms
* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widenDerived terms
* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extentAnagrams
*piecen
English
Verb
(en verb)- But when the building, not designed from the first in its entirety, has been piecened and enlarged from time to time, the very nature of its plan is such as to present peculiar difficulties to those on whom the duty devolves.
- He'd piecened out himself a bunk on one side, and sot him up a stove in the corner, and hove some burlaps down under foot, with a couple of old wracked chairs, so's he allowed he'da sight lievser stop out there daytimes than not to.