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Subtend   Listen
verb
Subtend  v. t.  (past & past part. subtended; pres. part. subtending)  To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.






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"Subtend" Quotes from Famous Books



... current amongst sundry of the villagers outlying Damascus, the best Arabists are the Druzes, a heterogeneous of Arabs and Curds who cultivate language with uncommon care. Of the dialectic families which subtend the Mediterranean's southern sea-board, the Maroccan and the Algerine are barbarised by Berber, by Spanish and by Italian words and are roughened by the inordinate use of the Sukun (quiescence or conjoining of consonants), while the Tunisian approaches nearer to the Syrian ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... attend' (-ance, -ant); contend'; distend'; extend'; intend' (literally, to stretch to), to purpose, to design; portend' (literally, to stretch forward), to presage, to betoken; pretend' (literally, to stretch forth), to affect, feel; subtend', to extend under; superintend' ...
— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton

... to transit a large area of workable ground. English officers traversed the interior in all directions, and their reports throw vivid light upon the position, the extent, and the value of the auriferous grounds which subtend the Gold Coast and which supply it ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron



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