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adjective

beyond or more than what is usual, expected, or necessary; additional: an extra copy of a newspaper; an extra charge.

larger or better than what is usual: an extra binding.

noun

something extra or additional: the little amenities and extras that make life pleasant.

an additional expense.

a special edition of a newspaper, other than a regular edition.

something of superior quality.

Movies, Television. a person hired by the day to play a minor part, as a member of a mob or crowd.

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an additional worker.

Usually, extras. Cricket. a score or run not made from the bat, as a bye or a wide.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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adverb

10.

in excess of the usual or specified amount: an extra high price.

11.

beyond the ordinary degree; unusually; uncommonly: done extra well; extra large.

Origin:
1770–80; by shortening of extraordinary

Example Sentences

On the day that an article is published about how infrequently kickers miss extra points, two kickers miss extra points.

Allowing students to keep extra funding will improve time-to-degree.

Extra years of schooling and wider access to university are everywhere supposed to be good for growth.

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On the day that an article is published about how infrequently kickers miss extra points, two kickers miss extra points.

Allowing students to keep extra funding will improve time-to-degree.

Extra years of schooling and wider access to university are everywhere supposed to be good for growth.

With an extra large feeding tube it's never been simpler to add.

Giving suspects an extra task helps to separate the liars from the truth-tellers.

If physicists do find solid evidence of extra dimensions, how would that affect our view of the universe and our place in.

Carve into the attic for a home office, bathroom, and extra sleeping space.

Birds, amphibians and mammals often use hard-to-discern sounds to add an extra layer of vocal information.

Numerous extra or increased dividends were announced by domestic corporations yesterday.

Here are some other majors that get extra credit for originality.

Marginal revenue is the extra revenue earned by selling one more unit of something.

The extra hands can also block escape routes for wary fish.

Playground bullies may reap rewards other than extra lunch money.

But there is no denying extra freshness, extra sparkle, to a seasoned observer's first impressions.

The cream lacquered side tables are both whimsical and practical, adding extra mobility to the traditional nightstand.

These sets basically interpolate an extra frame in between each normal frame in order to make quick motion look smoother.

Going that extra mile means the college handed out bigger paychecks-even as the effects of the recession dragged.

The researchers reckon that the extra iron boosted growth rates and carbon-dioxide consumption between two- and threefold.

With an extra large feeding tube, it's never been simpler to add essential vitamins and minerals to your family's diet.

The extra speed provided by ski wax comes at a cost--perfluorochemicals.

Tinling gets extra points for adding some eleventh-hour flash.

The extra seat-cushion helps forward visibility during the extremely nose-high approaches to landing.

Being a lecturer gives her extra time-few meetings, no research-that she needs to write.

It would be unworkable to require airlines to offer tall people extra legroom as a matter of course and without charge.

Extra funding promised to help search for natural resources and advance ocean research.

But having an extra curry dish here and there couldn't hurt.

As a result, posts will stand secure for many extra years.

Noah told me he and his wife were having such a great time on vacation that he was thinking of staying an extra few days.

Colleges that fail the test are subject to extra monitoring on their use of federal student-aid funds.

But the findings challenge the notion that providing extra facilities in poor areas is enough.

As you're enjoying your turkey dinner this holiday weekend, you might want to scoop on an extra serving of cranberry sauce.

Their metabolic rate stays elevated for hours after the last weight is put away, burning extra calories.

Spikes of small white flowers appear in late spring or early summerTo add extra sparkle to heavily shaded spots.

Still, the results nonetheless confirm that an extra hour or two of sleep a night can only help job performance to some degree.

Admitting an extra freshman won't offset the dishes.

It has no way of adding the extra matter needed to provide the extra density.

It's a fairly common practice to help certain endangered species in the wild by providing them with extra food or prey.

It's one that maybe is a little bit idiosyncratic, but that benefits from that little extra bit of style.

But they can also easily be varied with a few extra ingredients to keep menus lively.

But if someone is buying goods in bulk from a wholesaler and hoping to make a couple extra bucks reselling each.

Any merchant of course would be happy to get extra cash from customers who are less sensitive to price.

But this strange extra acceleration was seen subsequently with two other craft.

We save extra calories as fat to carry us through the times when finding food was tough.

They couldn't bring extra cops into the courtroom because that would be prejudicial, but they put them at the doors.

Along the way, patch any thin or broken spots in the lining with extra moss.

Each set also comes with several extra pieces, with which you are supposedly able to build extra small things.

Students may also get hit with extra fees for course materials, technology services, and individual courses.

Most of the time exchange rates do not adjust to offset the extra yield being targeted in carry trades.

The cases use extra energy to cool the air that leaks in.

Bison-backed dinosaurs would have been obligated to take up a different posture to handle all that extra bulk.

If you need to take a break from wrapping, use an extra skewer to mark the wire.

Powered phone cases usually add too much extra heft and bulk to a cell phone.

Recruiting non-resident students is seen by many publics as the only remaining way for them to generate extra revenue.

Labour is therefore getting some of the extra growth due to globalisation.

Easy sleep is a distant memory now that she must contend with tens of pounds of extra girth.

He runs a cutting device over the top of the molding table and shaves away the extra wax.

The dough needs a little extra flour, which makes it stiffer.

If you want extra taste, let the brat soak after boiling.

The graduate students had extra requirements of course.

Green groups, too, fretted that extra traffic would mean extra greenhouse gases.

But, as the balloons repolarize, the hemispheres that never came into contact with each other would gain an extra unit of charge.

The larger vehicles are still moving slowly due to the extra expense of battery packs.

Extra nitrogen fosters algal overgrowth in lakes and rivers, thus upsetting their ecosystems.

Red ones let you get hit twice before dying, green ones grant an extra life.

Plan well ahead of your deadline, and build extra time into your schedule.

But in this instance, the trade-off is not merely one of extra costs for farmers versus extra comforts for their charges.

The extra antenna allows smart phones to carry two signals over a single frequency.

Drinking extra juice and water is supposed to replace fluids in the body lost to fever and to help break up mucus.

Shade plants need little extra fertilizer if they're grown in good soil.

Fulbright awards extra money for living and transportation based on number of dependents going with grantee.

When times are tough, extra payouts cushion the pain.

If you wait an extra second, you miss your chance.

But the unexpected discovery of the hadrosaur mummy had the promise of a little extra income.

Neither the oaks nor the daffodils need any extra summer water.

He gets up at the crack of dawn to do a couple of hours' extra ploughing.

The extra chromosome arises as a mistake in cell division during embryonic development.

Later in the day families gather for a big meal, with extra care going into presentation and serving a variety of special dishes.

Couple finds extra living space in the backyard more.

They can also be met by issuing extra shares at maturity.

But half of the volunteers received extra information:.

Then again, it might have to buy extra allowances on the open market.

Yogurt gives this moist cake recipe extra tang, blueberries add bright color and summer sweetness, and a nutty streusel topping.

Looming debt and demographic crises have governments searching for extra revenue.

When you are exercising, your muscles need extra oxygen-some three times as much as resting muscles.

Extra security would certainly be an issue and an expense, but hopefully that could be offset by publicity or a nominal entry fee.

Make sure that you keep your gas tank full and carry extra water and food in case you have problems.

Gene therapy works by inserting extra copies of particular genes into the body.

Telecommunications companies have been leery of investing in infrastructure unless they are certain of demand for extra speed.

Smoking turkey on the grill with wine-infused wood chips gives the bird lots of flavor and provides extra oven space.

In fact, this extra reinforcement probably saved the house from collapsing years ago.

If extra deuterium suggests cometary water on the moon, one must consider the same possibility for martian water.

To provide the extra humidity this orchid likes, place the pot on an inverted saucer in a pan filled with pebbles and water.

It is something akin to the philosopher's stone: seeming to create extra value without consuming resources.

We eat the chicken and take on an extra toxic burden and more fat cells are formed.

In the living room, the window seat stores extra blankets, and the.

In the big hotels, waiters kept offering their patrons extra mugs of beer.

Tachyarrhythmia is triggered when an extra heartbeat develops in a person's normal cardiac cadence.

But to me no extra incentives are necessary to warrant a winter visit.

However, there is now a growing sense of confidence among ministers that the extra spending is starting to produce results.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

a prefix meaning “outside,” “beyond,” freely used as an English formative: extrajudicial; extraterritorial; extra-atmospheric.

Also, extro-.

Origin:
< Latin, combining form of extrā (adv. and preposition) outside (of), without

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World English Dictionary

extra (ˈɛkstrə)

—*adj*
1.	being more than what is usual or expected; additional

—n
2.	a person or thing that is additional
3.	something for which an additional charge is made: the new car had many extras
4.	an additional edition of a newspaper, esp to report a new development or crisis
5.	films an actor or person temporarily engaged, usually for crowd scenes
6.	cricket a run not scored from the bat, such as a wide, no-ball, bye, or leg bye
7.	(US) something that is better than usual in quality

—*adv*
8.	unusually; exceptionally: an extra fast car

[C18: perhaps shortened from extraordinary]

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Word Origin & History

extra

1650s as a stand-alone; modern usages -- including sense of "minor performer in a play" (1777) and "special edition of a newspaper" (1793) -- all probably are from shortenings of extraordinary, which was used extensively in 18c. as noun and adverb in places we would

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use extra today. The prefix extra- was only recorded in classical L. in extraordinarius, but has been much used in modern formations such as extraterrestrial, and represents the old fem. abl. of exterus "outward, outside."

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Medical Dictionary

extra- or extro-
pref.
Outside; beyond: extracellular.

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Computing Dictionary

EXTRA definition

Object-oriented, Pascal style, handles sets. "A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS", M.J. Carey et al, SIGMOD 88 Conf Proc, pp.413- 423, ACM SIGMOD Record 17:3 (Sept 1988).

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