cantilever vs extend

cantilever

verb
  • To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever. 

noun
  • A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony. 

  • A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system. 

  • A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice. 

extend

verb
  • To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply. 

  • To reenlist for a further period. 

  • To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions. 

  • To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. 

  • To straighten (a limb). 

  • Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class. 

  • To increase in extent. 

  • To cause to increase in extent. 

  • To cause to last for a longer period of time. 

  • To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. 

How often have the words cantilever and extend occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )