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] It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials.

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Quick take

a minor actor in crowd scenes

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of extra gathered in one view.

noun

a minor actor in crowd scenes

noun

an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)

noun

something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for extra.

noun

a minor actor in crowd scenes

noun

an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)

noun

something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency"

adjective

more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

adjective

added to a regular schedule; "a special holiday flight"; "put on special buses for the big game"

adjective

further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"

adverb

unusually or exceptionally; "an extra fast car"

Example sentences

] It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials.

The botmaster would issue commands that I can't really recall anymore, but I do remember seeing a lot of commands that I assumed told the bots to download extra malware from a remote host.

However, just to be extra cautious weve temporarily disabled external resource loading while we explore alternatives.

But here in the USA, once you factor the need to carry back all the stuff we buy at Costco, you can see how the extra capacity of a carrier battle group would actually save you trips and, in the long run, be more efficient than a smaller vehicle.

][edit: It also occurred to me to verify the other direction: in fact, if you go to send a message, first the client sends something to the developer's server, which then returns a packet which, along with again the exactly 7 extra bytes, is sent to Apple's server.

All of these standards can be applied fairly strictly, and with much less vagueness than notability.- It's not like Wikipedia is short of disk space to store a few million extra text articles.- The argument that it would be too difficult to maintain lots of extra articles is also weak, because not every article needs to be regularly edited, and more articles on niche topics might actually attract more editors.- No, we won't end up with a page for every John Doe and his cat.