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protend

/pɹəʊˈtɛnd/

protend verb: to hold out; to stretch forth.

Verb

protend (third-person singular simple present protends, present participle protending, simple past and past participle protended)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To hold out; to stretch forth.
    • Amongst the which, as the most Noble Qualities, Heat and Moisture are the active formative in Nature, Calidity and Humidity equally proportionately joyn'd, compose the most superlative constitution , fully protending and dilating the parts, but if Heat much exceed moisture in composition, so that...1664, Richard Sanders, Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed
    • With his protended lance he makes defence.1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
    • At the moment that the first beat is sounded, if the listener is to hear it as a division of a larger temporal unit, he or she must concretely protend the other beats of the bar; that is, the listener must experience, in the temporal "space" of the near future, three more beats while he or she is...2000, Michael Thomas Carroll, Eddie Tafoya, Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, page 129
    • Instead, our retentions are made up of al the words I have spoken, and we protend toward the completion of my sentence or idea.2003, Donn Welton, The New Husserl: A Critical Reader, page 133

protend meaning in Urdu

protend in Urdu

وسعت دینا

Examples of protend in a sentence

  • Dann may actively think "I am going to go to the G chord"; he may prepare his hand to grasp the G, or may even protend the G chord but insulate the C chord from it —none of these will make the C a IV.2012, Harris M. Berger, Metal, Rock, and Jazz, page 227:
  • Consciousness may not protend everything in the horizon; there is too much.2023, Mitchell Atkinson III, Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis, page 152:

Forms of protend

third-person singular presentprotends
present participleprotending
past participleprotended
pastprotended

Origin of protend

Borrowed from Latin protendere, from pro (“before, forth”) + tendere (“to stretch”).

Questions about protend

What does protend mean?
Protend means to hold out; to stretch forth.
What is protend in Urdu?
Protend in Urdu is وسعت دینا. See Protend meaning in Urdu.
How do you use protend in a sentence?
Dann may actively think "I am going to go to the G chord"; he may prepare his hand to grasp the G, or may even protend the G chord but insulate the C chord from it —none of these will make the C a IV.
What part of speech is protend?
Protend is a verb.
How do you pronounce protend?
Protend is pronounced /pɹəʊˈtɛnd/.
What is the past tense of protend?
The past tense of protend is protended.

Words near protend in the dictionary

  1. protelomerase
  2. protelomerases
  3. protemperance
  4. protemporaneous
  5. protenant
  6. protend
  7. protended
  8. protending
  9. protends
  10. protenema
  11. protenemata

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Adapted from Wiktionary: protend (page history and authors); protend (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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