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Extender vs Lengthener - What's the difference?

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Lengthener is a synonym of extender.



As nouns the difference between extender and lengthener

is that extender is any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material while lengthener is a person or thing that lengthens something.

extender

English

(wikipedia extender)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
  • Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
  • Any substance added to meat to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
    • Soy protein is used as a meat extender .
  • (climbing) A runner, or quick-draw. (from sense #2)
  • (linguistics) A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".

    • Derived terms

    * DOS extender

    Anagrams

    * ----

    lengthener

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that lengthens something
    • This exercise is a great leg lengthener .
    I went to the store to get some eyelash lengtheners .
  • *{{quote-book, 1877, George Edwin Waring, Waring's Book of the Farm, page=325 citation
    • , passage=RYE is the great lengthener of the seasons.}}

    Synonyms

    *extender

    Coordinate terms

    *shortener English agent nouns