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Look up stretch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stretch can refer to: Stretch (surname), a list of people Stretch (nickname), a list Stretch Records
Stretch
Form of physical exercise where a muscle is stretched to improve it
Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific muscle or tendon (or muscle group) is deliberately expanded and flexed in order to improve
Stretching
Basketball position
In basketball, a stretch four (sometimes called a stretch big) is a player at the power forward position that can shoot further from the basket than a
Stretch_four
British boxer, model, and actor
Gary Stretch (born 4 November 1965) is a British boxer, actor, model, producer, and screenwriter. During his boxing career, Stretch won 29 of his 31 fights
Gary_Stretch
Luxury car with division driven by a chauffeur
a very long wheelbase and driven by a professional driver is called a stretch limousine. In some countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom
Limousine
First IBM supercomputer using dedicated transistors
The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first
IBM_7030_Stretch
Form of scarring
Stretch marks, also known as striae (/ˈstraɪiː/)[citation needed] or striae distensae, are a form of scarring on the skin with an off-color hue. Over
Stretch_marks
Muscle contraction in response to stretching
The stretch reflex (myotatic reflex), or more accurately muscle stretch reflex, is a muscle contraction in response to stretching a muscle. The function
Stretch_reflex
Action figure notable for its ability to stretch several feet
Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure that was first sold in 1976 by Kenner. It looks like a short muscular man with blond hair wearing
Stretch_Armstrong
American rapper and record producer
(August 21, 1968 – November 30, 1995), better known by his stage name Stretch, was an American rapper and record producer, working in Live Squad. In
Stretch_(rapper)
Break during a baseball game
In baseball in the United States and Canada, the seventh-inning stretch (also known as the Lucky 7 in Japan and South Korea) is a long-standing tradition
Seventh-inning_stretch
2001 video game
Stretch Panic, known as Freak Out in Europe and Oceania and Hippa Linda (ひっぱリンダ, Hippa Rinda) in Japan, is a platform game designed by Treasure Co. Ltd
Stretch_Panic
2016 singles by Kanye West
"Father Stretch My Hands" is a pair of songs by American rapper Kanye West from his seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo (2016). They are split into
Father_Stretch_My_Hands
Act of lengthening the labia minora
Labia stretching, also referred to as labia elongation or labia pulling, is the act of lengthening the labia minora (the inner lips of the female genitals)
Labia_stretching
Packaging material
Stretch wrap or stretch film, sometimes known as pallet wrap, is a highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items. The elastic recovery
Stretch_wrap
2014 American film
Stretch is a 2014 American crime comedy film written and directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Patrick Wilson, Ed Helms, James Badge Dale, Brooklyn Decker
Stretch_(2014_film)
Surname list
Stretch is the surname of: Bill Stretch (born 1935), Australian former politician Billy Stretch (born 1996), Australian rules footballer C.J. Stretch
Stretch_(surname)
British rock band
"Why Did You Do It?", 1975 Problems playing this file? See media help. Stretch were a 1970s British rock band that grew from the collaboration between
Stretch_(band)
Sensory receptor type
Stretch receptors are mechanoreceptors responsive to distention of various organs and muscles, and are neurologically linked to the medulla in the brain
Stretch_receptor
Venezuelan musician (born 1989)
Libre (2012) under the name Arca and subsequently released the EPs Stretch 1 and Stretch 2; the latter experimented with hip hop and brought her attention
Arca_(musician)
One of the 12 basic principles of animation
Squash and stretch is the phrase used to describe "by far the most important" of the 12 basic principles of animation, described in the book The Illusion
Squash_and_stretch
Welsh footballer
Logan Scott Stretch (born 4 November 2006) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One side Sheffield Wednesday. He
Logan_Stretch
Australian politician
William Noel Stretch (born 17 March 1935) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Ballarat and arrived in Western Australia in 1954. He farmed
Bill_Stretch
2011 French film
Stretch is a 2011 English-language French sports film directed by Charles de Meaux and starring Nicolas Cazalé, Fan Bingbing and David Carradine. It marks
Stretch_(2011_film)
Sensor measuring deformation and stretching
A stretch sensor is a sensor which can be used to measure deformation and stretching forces such as tension or bending. They are usually made from a material
Stretch_sensor
Fabric that can be stretched and recover
Stretch fabric is a synthetic fabric that stretches. Stretch fabrics are either 2-way stretch or 4-way stretch. 2-way stretch fabrics stretch in one direction
Stretch_fabric
2015 studio album by Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes) is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah released on September 18, 2015, by
Stretch_Music
other stretches, are usually grouped with stretches as they serve the same tactical purposes. In public performance, for safety's sake, stretches are usually
Professional_wrestling_holds
Island in Mason County, Washington, United States
Stretch Island is an island in Case Inlet in the southern part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It forms part of the unincorporated Mason
Stretch_Island
American record label
Stretch Records is an American record company and label that was established in 1997[citation needed] by Chick Corea and music industry veteran Ron Moss
Stretch_Records
2012 EP by Arca
Stretch 2 is the third extended play by Venezuelan producer Arca. It was released on 6 August 2012 by UNO NYC, following its predecessor Stretch 1 in April
Stretch_2
English writer and singer
Joe Stretch (born 7 January 1982) is an English writer and singer. His first novel, Friction, was published by Vintage Books at Random House in 2008.
Joe_Stretch
Electronic toy line
Stretch Screamers was a series of electronic toys by Manley Toys Limited of Hong Kong. Stretch Screamers were a line of toy monsters from the early 2000s
Stretch_Screamers
English electronic music duo
Stretch & Vern are an English electronic music duo consisting of Stretch Silvester (Stuart Silvester) and Jules Vern (Julian Peake). They are best known
Stretch_&_Vern
Puerto Rican footballer (born 1999)
Callum Blu Stretch (born September 18, 1999) is a footballer who plays as a defender for USL League One club Sarasota Paradise. Born in the continental
Callum_Stretch
Sports ownership and management company
7th Inning Stretch LLC is an American sports ownership and management company, which owns several Minor League Baseball teams. Tom Volpe founded 7th Inning
7th_Inning_Stretch_LLC
2004 single by Mase featuring P. Diddy
"Breathe, Stretch, Shake" is the second single released from Mase's third album, Welcome Back. It was released on September 14, 2004, produced by Rick
Breathe,_Stretch,_Shake
Relative deformation of a physical body
strain is zero, so that there is no deformation, the stretch ratio is equal to unity. The stretch ratio is used in the analysis of materials that exhibit
Strain_(mechanics)
Topics referred to by the same term
Down the Stretch may refer to: Down the Stretch (1936 film), an American drama film Down the Stretch (1927 film), an American drama film This disambiguation
Down_the_Stretch
Manufacturing process for forming and joining together hollow plastic parts
molding: extrusion blow molding, injection blow molding, and injection stretch blow molding. The blow molding process begins with softening plastic by
Blow_molding
Releases of Debian GNU/Linux, a computer operating system
for codename Stretch. Stretch becomes oldoldstable, Bullseye is the current stable release (14 August 2021; 4 years ago (2021-08-14)) Stretch long term support
Debian release version history
Debian_release_version_history
Twin-aisle airliner family
with United Airlines, and the extended-range 767-200ER in 1984. It was stretched into the 767-300 in October 1986, followed by the extended-range 767-300ER
Boeing_767
Stretch Princess was a British alternative rock band that formed in London, England in 1996. The band consisted of Jo Lloyd (vocals, bass, and piano)
Stretch_Princess
Manual package wrapping system
Mechanical brake stretch wrappers are manual stretch wrapping systems which consist of a simple structure supporting a roll of film to be stretched and a mechanical
Mechanical brake stretch wrapper
Mechanical_brake_stretch_wrapper
In combustion, flame stretch ( K {\displaystyle K} ) is a quantity which measures the amount of stretch of the flame surface due to curvature and due to
Flame_stretch
Basketball position
saw the introduction of the three-point shot. While the concept of the 'stretch five' would not come until the new millennium, players such as Bill Laimbeer
Center_(basketball)
1995 studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
well as the outro of "Deep Kick" and the chorus of the album outtake "Stretch". One Hot Minute sold more than two million copies and was certified multi-platinum
One_Hot_Minute
American hardcore punk band
Stretch Arm Strong (Also known as Stretch Armstrong) is a hardcore punk band from Columbia, South Carolina, and the flagship band for We Put Out Records
Stretch_Arm_Strong
1993 British TV series or programme
Full Stretch is a British comedy television series which first aired on ITV in 1993. It portrays a limousine rental company owned by an ex-footballer
Full_Stretch
Detail of tuning of musical instruments
Stretched tuning is a detail of musical tuning, applied to wire-stringed musical instruments, older, non-digital electric pianos (such as the Fender Rhodes
Stretched_tuning
New York-based DJ and music producer
professionally as DJ Stretch Armstrong is a New York-based DJ and music producer, known as a former co-host of hip hop radio show The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito
DJ_Stretch_Armstrong
Novel by Graham Norton
Home Stretch is the third novel written by the author, presenter, and comedian Graham Norton. In a small village in Ireland in 1987, a car crash occurs
Home_Stretch
2000 novel by Stephen Leather
The Stretch is a thriller written by Stephen Leather, published in 2000. The novel, his twelfth, was based on the script for his television miniseries
The_Stretch_(novel)
Muscle stretch followed by contraction
A stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) is a natural muscle function in which there is a rapid transitioning from an eccentric contraction (lengthening under
Stretch_shortening_cycle
Australian politician
Srechko Jernej "Stretch" Kontelj, OAM (born 1961) is an Australian lawyer and politician currently serving as the Mayor of the City of Greater Geelong
Stretch_Kontelj
American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Charles G. Stretch (born August 3, 1989) is an American professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Starbulls Rosenheim of the DEL2 in Germany
C._J._Stretch
American animator and director (born 1963)
be viewed on his YouTube channel, Stretch Films; however, it currently is not available online for viewing. Stretch Films, Inc. is a production company
John_R._Dilworth
American Clockmaker and Governor
Thomas Stretch (March 30, 1697 – October 19, 1765) was an American clockmaker, founder and first governor of the Colony in Schuylkill, later known as
Thomas_Stretch
South African cricketer (1952–2014)
Richard Stretch (26 November 1952 – 27 October 2014) was a South African cricketer. He played fourteen first-class matches for Border between 1979 and
Richard_Stretch
Pulmonary stretch receptors are mechanoreceptors found in the lungs. When the lung expands, the receptors initiate the Hering-Breuer reflex, which reduces
Pulmonary_stretch_receptor
1998 studio album by Stretch Princess
Stretch Princess is the debut studio album of English alternative rock band Stretch Princess. It was released on August 25th, 1998, through Wind-Up Records
Stretch_Princess_(album)
1973 studio album by Scott Walker
Stretch is the ninth solo studio album by the American singer Scott Walker. It was released in November 1973 but was unsuccessful on the music charts
Stretch_(album)
Mathematical parameter of embeddings
The stretch factor (i.e., bilipschitz constant) of an embedding measures the factor by which the embedding distorts distances. Suppose that one metric
Stretch_factor
Type of stretch film
Extended core stretch wrappers are rolls of stretch film that have their internal core extended beyond their film roll creating a handle by which film
Extended_core_stretch_wrapper
American hip hop radio show
The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show (also referred to as Stretch and Bobbito) was an underground hip hop radio show broadcast in New York, originally
The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show
The_Stretch_Armstrong_and_Bobbito_Show
Topics referred to by the same term
Final Stretch may refer to: Final Stretch (video game), a 1993 racing video game "Final Stretch" (Porridge), an episode of the BBC sitcom Porridge A series
Final_Stretch
Australian Anglican bishop (1855–1919)
John Francis Stretch (28 January 1855 – 19 April 1919) was an Australian Anglican bishop. Stretch was born in Geelong, Victoria, the son of Reverend John
Jack_Stretch
Canadian fitness trainer (born 1949)
fitness. She created the dynamic stretching and strengthening workout, Essentrics, and the PBS fitness TV show, Classical Stretch, based on Essentrics. Her study
Miranda_Esmonde-White
American sitcom (1971–1979)
loading platform): What Archie did not know was that Stretch was Jewish, evident only after Stretch died and Archie went to the funeral. Archie's eulogy
All_in_the_Family
Type of body piercings
Stretching, in the context of body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed piercing for the purpose of wearing certain types of body piercing
Stretching_(body_piercing)
Electronics that can bend and stretch
Stretchable electronics, also known as elastic electronics or elastic circuits, is a group of technologies for building electronic circuits by depositing
Stretchable_electronics
British priest and army chaplain (1915–1973)
The Reverend Thomas James Stretch (17 January 1915 – 12 October 1973) was one of the first people to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it
Thomas_James_Stretch
Medical condition
when rapidly stretched, they become brittle, and the axonal cytoskeleton can be broken. Misalignment of cytoskeletal elements after stretch injury can lead
Diffuse_axonal_injury
Medical diagnostic method
Femoral nerve stretch test, also known as Mackiewicz sign, is a test for spinal nerve root compression, which is associated with disc protrusion and femoral
Femoral_nerve_stretch_test
2019 single by Summer Walker featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie
"Stretch You Out" is a song by American singer Summer Walker, released on September 24, 2019 as the second single from her debut studio album Over It
Stretch_You_Out
List of various topics with the same nickname
Stretch is a nickname of: Stretch Johnson (1915–2002), American tap dancer and social activist Seantavius Jones (born 1992), American football player
Stretch_(nickname)
Type of fastener
A torque to yield fastener (TTY) or stretch bolt is a fastener which is torqued beyond the state of elasticity and therefore undergoes plastic deformation
Torque-to-yield_fastener
Australian rules footballer (born 1996)
Billy Stretch (born 8 September 1996) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian
Billy_Stretch
American clockmaker (1670–1746)
Peter Stretch (October 14, 1670 – September 11, 1746) was among the most prominent early American clockmakers and among the first makers of scientific
Peter_Stretch
Australian rules footballer
Steven Stretch (born 5 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and Fitzroy in the VFL/AFL and West Torrens in the
Steven_Stretch
anamorphic stretch transform (AST) also referred to as warped stretch transform is a physics-inspired signal transform that emerged from time stretch dispersive
Anamorphic_stretch_transform
Legal pitching positions in baseball
windup, and the set. Colloquially, the set is often referred to as "the stretch", although this term actually only refers to one part of the pitching motion
Pitching_position
Series of fortifications in northern China
regulation of trade. The collective fortifications constituting the Great Wall stretch from Liaodong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, and from the present-day
Great_Wall_of_China
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up stretching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle is deliberately elongated
Stretching_(disambiguation)
American basketball player (1907–1992)
Charles Carroll "Stretch" Murphy (April 10, 1907 – August 17, 1992) was an American basketball player. He played competitive basketball at Marion High
Stretch_Murphy
ʗ is a letter of the Latin alphabet used to represent an alveolar click consonant. This sound has been labeled as alveolar, postalveolar, retroflex and
Stretched_C
American tap dancer and activist (1915–2000)
Howard Eugene "Stretch" Johnson (January 30, 1915 – May 28, 2000) was an American tap dancer and social activist. In 1936, he joined his brother Bobby
Stretch_Johnson
Phase stretch transform (PST) is a computational approach to signal and image processing. One of its utilities is for feature detection and classification
Phase_stretch_transform
Controlled, mechanical drug delivery
Stretch-triggered drug delivery is a method of controlled drug delivery stimulated by mechanical forces. The most commonly used materials for stretch-triggered
Stretch-triggered drug delivery
Stretch-triggered_drug_delivery
Muscular function
The Golgi tendon reflex (also called inverse stretch reflex, autogenic inhibition, tendon reflex) is an inhibitory effect on the muscle resulting from
Golgi_tendon_reflex
1993 video game
Final Stretch (ファイナル・ストレッチ) is a 1993 Japan-exclusive Super Famicom Formula One racing video game licensed by FOCA to Fuji Television, which is based
Final_Stretch_(video_game)
European wide-body airliner
large-plane project. Analysts suggested that Boeing would instead pursue stretching its 747 design, and that air travel was already moving away from the hub-and-spoke
Airbus_A380
Medical condition
phimōsis 'muzzling') is a condition in which the foreskin of the penis cannot stretch to allow it to be pulled back past the glans. A balloon-like swelling under
Phimosis
Form of sexual play
physical feeling of stretching the ligaments that suspend the testicles has an effect similar to the more common practice of stretching one's legs and pointing
Cock_and_ball_torture
1996 single by Stretch 'n' Vern
by London-based DJ/producers Stretch Silvester (Stuart Silvester) and Jules Vern (Julian Peake) under the name Stretch & Vern, released as their debut
I'm Alive (Stretch & Vern song)
I'm_Alive_(Stretch_&_Vern_song)
Classical mechanics rule
the stretch rule (sometimes referred to as Routh's rule) states that the moment of inertia of a rigid object is unchanged when the object is stretched parallel
Stretch_rule
Type of automatic and semi-automatic stretch wrapping system
Turntable stretch wrappers are a type of automatic and semi-automatic stretch wrapping system. A load is placed on a turntable, which rotates relative
Turntable_stretch_wrapper
Topics referred to by the same term
time-stretching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Time stretching may refer to: Audio time stretching and pitch scaling, in audio Time stretching, in
Time_stretching
2000 British TV series or programme
The Stretch is a two-part British television crime drama mini-series, created and written by Stephen Leather and directed by Frank W. Smith. The series
The_Stretch_(TV_series)
Light technique
stretch dispersive Fourier transform (TS-DFT), otherwise known as time-stretch transform (TST), temporal Fourier transform or photonic time-stretch (PTS)
Time stretch dispersive Fourier transform
Time_stretch_dispersive_Fourier_transform
STRETCH
STRETCH
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English strech, strecche ‘strong’, ‘violent’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in the parish of Wigan (now in Greater Manchester), so called from Old English mearc ‘boundary’ + lanu ‘lane’.English (Lancashire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of border or boundary land (see Mark) or a status name for someone who held land with an annual value of one mark.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name for someone from Crewe in Cheshire, named with Old Welsh criu ‘weir’. This denoted a wickerwork fence that was stretched across a river to catch fish.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from an agent derivative of Old English dr̄gean ‘to dry’; possibly an occupational name for a drier of cloth. In the Middle Ages, after cloth had been dyed and fulled, it was stretched out in tenterfields to dry.Altered spelling of German Dreier or Dreyer.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Old English lang ‘long’ + feld ‘stretch of open country’, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Langfield in Kent.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Stretches out
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for the servant of a man called Wa(l)ter (see Water 1).English and Dutch : occupational name for a boatman or a water carrier, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water (see Water 2).Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wasserman(n), an occupational name for a water-carrier. Compare 2 above.Robert Waterman emigrated from England to Marshfield, MA, in 1636.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Walter, representing the normal medieval pronunciation of the name.English and German (Rhineland) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water, Middle English, Low German water.Irish : adopted as an English translation of Gaelic Ó Fuartháin (see Foran), being wrongly taken as Ó Fuaruisce ‘son of cold water’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rochford.English : variant of Rackford, a habitational name from Rackenford in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Racheneforda, which Mills interprets as ‘ford suitable for riding, by a stretch of river’.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
Boy/Male
Hawaiian
A Maui demigod who could take the form of a rope and stretch from Molokai to Hawaii.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Stretching.
Boy/Male
Indian
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
Boy/Male
Indian
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the dozen places in England called Anstey or Ansty, from Old English Änstiga, a compound of Än ‘one’ + stÄ«g ‘path’, denoting a short stretch of road forking at both ends. The surname is found principally in Somerset and the West Country.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a stretch of open country by a wood, or (as a later formation) someone who lived near a field by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu) + feld ‘open country’, later with the modern meaning ‘field’.Scottish : habitational name from Woodfield, a place near Annan in Dumfriesshire. A certain Roger Wodyfelde is recorded as holding land in Dumfries in 1365.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Midlands)
English (chiefly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Midlands) : topographic name for someone who lived in a house by a stretch of water or perhaps a moated house, from Middle English water ‘water’ + hous ‘house’.Richard Waterhouse, a tanner from Yorkshire, England, emigrated to Portsmouth, NH, in 1669.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : metonymic occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English tred(en) ‘to tread’ + well ‘well’. Fulling was the process by which newly woven cloth was cleaned and shrunk by the use of heat, water, and pressure (from treading) before finally being stretched and laid out to dry on tenter hooks.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
Boy/Male
Greek
Stretcher.
STRETCH
STRETCH
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Talented
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Union with God
Girl/Female
Tamil
Adrija | அதà¯à®°à®¿à®œà®¾
Of the mountain, Another name of Parvati
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Highest Social Standing; Lofty; Sublime; Feminine of Ali; Exalted; Noble
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Name of a tree
Boy/Male
Indian
Full of qualities, Expansionist, Vast, Spacious, Man of qualities
Girl/Female
Australian, British, English, Gaelic, Hebrew, Irish
Bitterness; Sea-bright
Girl/Female
Tamil
A woman with beautiful hair
Boy/Male
Indian
Brightness Like Shiva
Male
Portuguese
Portuguese form of Latin Wilhelmus, GUILHERME means "will-helmet."
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v. i.
To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
n.
Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
imp. & p. p.
of Stretch
n.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
v. t.
To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
v. t.
To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
v. i.
To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
n.
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
v. i.
To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
n.
A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
v. i.
To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
v. i.
To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
n.
The extent to which anything may be stretched.
v. t.
To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
n.
One who, or that which, stretches.
n.
Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
v. t.
To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
n.
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stretch