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extra
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[ adjective ] further or added
Synonyms Examples "called for additional troops" "need extra help" "an extra pair of shoes" "I have no other shoes" "there are other possibilities" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)The statistics hardly indicated that the Pirates needed extra batting practice , but Murtaugh also turned his men loose at Busch_Stadium yesterday . (Chicago Daily Tribune...)The spaciousness of the Tudor cooking areas , for_example , will provide needed space for the extra television_sets required by modern butlers , cooks and maids . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)When the larvae hatch , they feed_on the beebread , although they also receive extra honey meals from their mother . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who , though numbering in the fifties , had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Others carried extra clips for the Browning_Automatic_Rifle , which was in the hands of a little Mexican named Martinez . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] more than is needed, desired, or required
Examples "trying to lose excess weight" "found some extra change" "another book on heraldry might be thought redundant" "sleeping in the spare room" "supernumerary ornamentation" "delete superfluous words" Used in print (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The x-ray_diffraction pattern of the material , taken with CuKla radiation , indicated the presence of no extra lines and was in good agreement with the pattern of Douglass . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)If you can possibly avoid it , you do n't hand_out any extra chances . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)
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[ adjective ] (prefix) outside or beyond
Examples "`extra' is a prefix in `an extrauterine pregnancy'" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (performing arts) a minor actor in crowd scenes
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[ adverb ] unusually or exceptionally
Examples "an extra fast car" |
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[ adjective ] added to a regular schedule
Synonyms Examples "a special holiday flight" "put on special buses for the big game" Related terms |
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[ noun ] something additional of the same kind
Synonyms Examples he always carried extras in case of an emergency" Related terms |
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