Spans vs Extends - What's the difference?

As a noun spans

is .

(extend).

(head)

(head)

(span)

* snaps

(head)

(extend)

(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.

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

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