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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stretch over |
| Synonyms: | arch, bridge, connect, cover, cross, extend, ford, go across, link, pass over, range, reach, traverse, vault |
| Antonyms: | compress, concentrate, condense, shorten |
| Main Entry: | ranging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving over wide areas |
| Synonyms: | covering, extensive, roaming, roving, spanning, sweeping, traversing, widespread |
| Main Entry: | reaching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extending to a point |
| Synonyms: | embracing, encompassing, ending at, going up to, joining, meeting, spanning, spreading to, stretching, touching |
| Main Entry: | protractile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensible |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, expansible, expansile, extendible, extensile, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretch, stretchable, stretching |
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, bow, bridge, camber, extend, form, hook, hump, hunch, round, shape, span, stretch |
| Main Entry: | bridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | connect, extend |
| Synonyms: | arch over, attach, bind, branch, couple, cross, cross over, go over, join, link, reach, span, subtend, traverse, unite |
| Antonyms: | detach, disconnect, disjoin, disunite, unlink |
| Main Entry: | comprise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up, consist of |
| Synonyms: | add up to, amount to, be composed of, be contained in, compass, compose, comprehend, constitute, contain, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, engross, form, hold, include, incorporate, involve, span, subsume, sum up, take in |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' comprise means literally 'embrace': a zoo comprises mammals, reptiles, and birds (because it 'embraces' or includes them), but animals do not comprise ('embrace') a zoo, they constitute a zoo |
| Antonyms: | except, exclude, fail, fall short, lack, need, want |
| Main Entry: | connect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | combine, link |
| Synonyms: | affix, ally, associate, attach, bridge, cohere, come aboard, conjoin, consociate, correlate, couple, equate, fasten, get into, hitch on, hook on, hook up, interface, join, join up with, marry, meld with, network with, plug into, relate, slap on, span, tack on, tag, tag on, tie in, tie in with, unite, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | disconnect |
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | traverse an area |
| Synonyms: | bridge, cruise, cut across, extend over, ford, go across, meet, move across, navigate, overpass, pass over, ply, sail, span, transverse, voyage, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
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