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Found 3 items, similar to stretching.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: stretch
bidanan, bidang, bidasan, membujur, membuntangkan, mengulurkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: stretching
stretching
adj : extending far;
“beyond the misty gray of the rain he saw the
stretching hutment”;
“wide-spreading plains” [syn:
stretching(a),
wide-spreading]
n 1: act of expanding by lengthening or widening
2: exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their
full extent [syn:
stretch]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Stretching
Stretch
\Stretch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Stretched; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Stretching.] [OE. strecchen, AS. streccan; akin to D.
strekken, G. strecken, OHG. strecchen, Sw. str["a]cka, Dan.
str[ae]kke; cf. AS. str[ae]ck, strec, strong, violent, G.
strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to E.
strong. Cf.
Straight.]
1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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And stretch forth his neck long and small.
--Chaucer.
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I in conquest stretched mine arm. --Shak.
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2. To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a
straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
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3. To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as,
to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
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4. To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
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The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain.
--Shak.
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5. To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to
stretch a tendon or muscle.
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Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. --Doddridge.
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6. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the
truth; to stretch one's credit.
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They take up, one day, the most violent and
stretched prerogative. --Burke.
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Stretching
\Stretch"ing\,
a. & n. from
Stretch, v.
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Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of
stretchers. See
Stretcher, 2. --Britton.
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