EXTEND TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does extend to mean? 

• EXTEND TO (verb)
  The verb EXTEND TO has 1 sense:

1. to extend as far as

  Familiarity information: EXTEND TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTEND TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To extend as far as

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

extend to; reach; touch

Context example:

The chair must not touch the wall

Hypernyms (to "extend to" is one way to...):

be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "extend to"):

reach into (run into or up to)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

In a business-as-usual scenario where heat-trapping carbon emissions are left uncontrolled, the glacier loss could extend to two-thirds, exposing the black rock of the ice-covered mountains.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

It may extend to the myometrium and parametrial tissues.

(Endometritis, NCI Thesaurus)

It has the tendency to recur and extend to adjacent structures.

(Inverted Schneiderian Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The condition may extend to the oral mucosa, tongue, palate, or pharynx.

(Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A flow due to liquid water should readily extend to less steep slopes.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

“These … extend to those like the young and healthy university students. And that we find significant effects on the way they think - their cognitive functions.”

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

As to Mr. St John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and rapidly between me and his sisters did not extend to him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Issue associated with the comprising materials' deformation in that a device fails to open its wrapping or open/extend to a certain fashion or form i.e. balloon or lens.

(Medical Device or Device Component Failure to Unfold or Unwrap, Food and Drug Administration)

A precancerous neoplastic process characterized by the presence of moderate or severe dysplastic cytological changes which extend to the upper part of the squamous epithelium.

(High Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

It plays havoc with the ecosystem and the consequences may extend to local people who depend on marine biodiversity for income and as a source of food.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)