"extension cord" meaning in English

See extension cord in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: extension cords [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} extension cord (plural extension cords)
  1. (electronics, US) An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices. Wikipedia link: extension cord Tags: US Categories (topical): Electronics Synonyms: extension lead [UK], extension, power extender, drop cord, trip cord [slang] Related terms: extension reel, extension cord reel, power board, powerboard, power strip Translations (an electrical cord): سِلْك تَوْصِيل (silk tawṣīl) [masculine] (Arabic), 電源延長線 (Chinese Mandarin), 电源延长线 (diànyuán yáncháng xiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 延長線 (Chinese Mandarin), 延长线 (yánchángxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), prodlužovačka [feminine] (Czech), prodlužka [feminine] (Czech), forlængerledning [common-gender] (Danish), verlengsnoer [neuter] (Dutch), jatkojohto (Finnish), prolongateur [masculine] (French), rallonge [feminine] (French), Verlängerungskabel [neuter] (German), hosszabbító zsinór (Hungarian), hosszabbító (Hungarian), framlengingarsnúra [feminine] (Icelandic), prolunga [feminine] (Italian), 延長ケーブル (enchō-kēburu) (Japanese), テーブルタップ (tēburutappu) (Japanese), skøteledning (Norwegian), przedłużacz [masculine] (Polish), extensão [feminine] (Portuguese), cablu de prelungire [neuter] (Romanian), cablu prelungitor (Romanian), prelungitor [neuter] (Romanian), удлини́тель (udlinítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), predlžovačka [feminine] (Slovak), alargador [masculine] (Spanish), prolongador [masculine] (Spanish), extensión [Cuba, Dominican-Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, feminine] (Spanish), alargue [Argentina, Uruguay, masculine] (Spanish), skarvsladd (Swedish), förlängningssladd (Swedish), dugtungang-kawad (Tagalog), uzatma kablosu (Turkish), подо́вжувач (podóvžuvač) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for extension cord meaning in English (6.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "extension cords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "extension cord (plural extension cords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Electronics",
          "orig": "en:Electronics",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices."
      ],
      "id": "en-extension_cord-en-noun-r0qjwZ9T",
      "links": [
        [
          "electronics",
          "electronics"
        ],
        [
          "cord",
          "cord"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electronics, US) An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "extension reel"
        },
        {
          "word": "extension cord reel"
        },
        {
          "word": "power board"
        },
        {
          "word": "powerboard"
        },
        {
          "word": "power strip"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "extension lead"
        },
        {
          "word": "extension"
        },
        {
          "word": "power extender"
        },
        {
          "word": "drop cord"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "trip cord"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "electronics",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "silk tawṣīl",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "سِلْك تَوْصِيل"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "電源延長線"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "diànyuán yáncháng xiàn",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "电源延长线"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "延長線"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yánchángxiàn",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "延长线"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prodlužovačka"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prodlužka"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "forlængerledning"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "verlengsnoer"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "jatkojohto"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prolongateur"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "rallonge"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Verlängerungskabel"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "hosszabbító zsinór"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "hosszabbító"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "framlengingarsnúra"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prolunga"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "enchō-kēburu",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "延長ケーブル"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tēburutappu",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "テーブルタップ"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "skøteledning"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "przedłużacz"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "extensão"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "cablu de prelungire"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "cablu prelungitor"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "prelungitor"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "udlinítelʹ",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "удлини́тель"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "predlžovačka"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "alargador"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prolongador"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "Cuba",
            "Dominican-Republic",
            "Guatemala",
            "Mexico",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "extensión"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "Argentina",
            "Uruguay",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "alargue"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "skarvsladd"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "förlängningssladd"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "dugtungang-kawad"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "word": "uzatma kablosu"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "podóvžuvač",
          "sense": "an electrical cord",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "подо́вжувач"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "extension cord"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "extension cord"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "extension cords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "extension cord (plural extension cords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "extension reel"
    },
    {
      "word": "extension cord reel"
    },
    {
      "word": "power board"
    },
    {
      "word": "powerboard"
    },
    {
      "word": "power strip"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Electronics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "electronics",
          "electronics"
        ],
        [
          "cord",
          "cord"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(electronics, US) An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "electronics",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "extension cord"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "extension lead"
    },
    {
      "word": "extension"
    },
    {
      "word": "power extender"
    },
    {
      "word": "drop cord"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "trip cord"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "silk tawṣīl",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سِلْك تَوْصِيل"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "電源延長線"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diànyuán yáncháng xiàn",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "电源延长线"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "延長線"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yánchángxiàn",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "延长线"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prodlužovačka"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prodlužka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "forlængerledning"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "verlengsnoer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "jatkojohto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prolongateur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rallonge"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Verlängerungskabel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "hosszabbító zsinór"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "hosszabbító"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "framlengingarsnúra"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prolunga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "enchō-kēburu",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "延長ケーブル"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tēburutappu",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "テーブルタップ"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "skøteledning"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "przedłużacz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "extensão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "cablu de prelungire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "cablu prelungitor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "prelungitor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udlinítelʹ",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "удлини́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "predlžovačka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "alargador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prolongador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "Cuba",
        "Dominican-Republic",
        "Guatemala",
        "Mexico",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "extensión"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "Argentina",
        "Uruguay",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "alargue"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "skarvsladd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "förlängningssladd"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "dugtungang-kawad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "word": "uzatma kablosu"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "podóvžuvač",
      "sense": "an electrical cord",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "подо́вжувач"
    }
  ],
  "word": "extension cord"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.