'Stretch' definitions:
Definition of 'stretch'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having an elongated seating area; "a stretch limousine"
adjective
Easily stretched; "stretch hosiery"
noun
A large and unbroken expanse or distance; "a stretch of highway"; "a stretch of clear water"
noun
noun
A straightaway section of a racetrack
noun
Exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent [syn: stretch, stretching]
noun
Extension to or beyond the ordinary limit; "running at full stretch"; "by no stretch of the imagination"; "beyond any stretch of his understanding"
noun
An unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary" [syn: stretch, stint]
noun
The capacity for being stretched [syn: stretch, stretchiness, stretchability]
verb
Occupy a large, elongated area; "The park stretched beneath the train line" [syn: stretch, stretch along]
verb
Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body; "Stretch your legs!"; "Extend your right arm above your head" [syn: stretch, extend]
verb
Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna" [syn: unfold, stretch, stretch out, extend]
verb
verb
Make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric" [syn: elongate, stretch]
verb
Lie down comfortably; "To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass" [syn: stretch, stretch out]
verb
Pull in opposite directions; "During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack"
verb
Extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly; "Stretch the limits"; "stretch my patience"; "stretch the imagination"
verb
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
verb
Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice" [syn: extend, stretch]
verb
Extend one's body or limbs; "Let's stretch for a minute-- we've been sitting here for over 3 hours" [syn: stretch, stretch out]
Definition of 'Stretch'
From: GCIDE
- Stretch \Stretch\, v. i.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- As far as stretcheth any ground. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances. [1913 Webster]
- The inner membrane . . . because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts. [Obs. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
- Stretch out, an order to rowers to extend themselves forward in dipping the oar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stretch'
From: GCIDE
- 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[aum]cka, Dan. straekke; cf. AS. straeck, 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. [1913 Webster]
- And stretch forth his neck long and small. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I in conquest stretched mine arm. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. [1913 Webster]
- The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. [1913 Webster]
- Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. --Doddridge. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit. [1913 Webster]
- They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stretch'
From: GCIDE
- Stretch \Stretch\, n.
- 1. Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination. [1913 Webster]
- By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land. [1913 Webster]
- A great stretch of cultivated country. --W. Black. [1913 Webster]
- But all of them left me a week at a stretch. --E. Eggleston. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The extent to which anything may be stretched. [1913 Webster]
- Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- This is the utmost stretch that nature can. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal. [1913 Webster]
- To be on the stretch, to be obliged to use one's utmost powers.
- Home stretch. See under Home, a. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stretch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adaptability,
- adaptable,
- adaptive,
- add to,
- aesthetic distance,
- aggrandize,
- airing,
- amble,
- amplify,
- amplitude,
- and quarter,
- answer,
- archery ground,
- area,
- athletic field,
- athletics,
- augment,
- avail,
- badminton court,
- balloon,
- ballyhoo,
- baseball field,
- basketball court,
- be equal to,
- be lengthy,
- be prolonged,
- bear,
- belong,
- bend,
- billiard parlor,
- bit,
- bloat,
- bloating,
- blow up,
- bounce,
- bounciness,
- bouncy,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- breadth,
- break,
- breaking point,
- breather,
- broaden,
- build,
- build up,
- bulk,
- bulk out,
- buoyance,
- buoyancy,
- buoyant,
- burlesque,
- calisthenics,
- caricature,
- carry,
- carry too far,
- clearance,
- compass,
- constitutional,
- continue,
- continuous tenure,
- course,
- court,
- cover,
- crane,
- crescendo,
- cricket ground,
- croquet ground,
- croquet lawn,
- daily dozen,
- day,
- deep space,
- depths of space,
- develop,
- diamond,
- diapason,
- dilate,
- dimensions,
- distance,
- distend,
- distension,
- distort,
- divergence,
- do,
- do it,
- drag out,
- draw,
- draw out,
- draw the longbow,
- drill,
- elastic,
- elasticity,
- elongate,
- elongation,
- embellish,
- encompass,
- enlarge,
- enlistment,
- environ,
- exaggerate,
- exercise,
- exercising,
- expand,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- extend,
- extend out,
- extensibility,
- extensile,
- extension,
- extent,
- extreme tension,
- fairway,
- farness,
- fateful moment,
- field,
- fill out,
- fill the bill,
- fit,
- flexibility,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- football field,
- forced march,
- fudge,
- fulfill,
- gamut,
- get by,
- gibbet,
- give,
- glaciarium,
- go,
- go around,
- go out,
- go to extremes,
- golf course,
- golf links,
- greaten,
- gridiron,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- gymnastic exercises,
- gymnastics,
- hack it,
- hang,
- haul,
- heave,
- hike,
- hike up,
- hitch,
- hold,
- hour,
- hyperbolize,
- ice rink,
- increase,
- infield,
- infinity,
- inflate,
- inflation,
- instant,
- interval,
- isometrics,
- jaunt,
- juncture,
- just do,
- kairos,
- lay it on,
- leeway,
- length,
- lengthen,
- lengthen out,
- lengthening,
- lengthiness,
- let out,
- lie,
- light-years,
- linear measures,
- links,
- liveliness,
- lively,
- long time,
- longitude,
- longness,
- lynch,
- magnify,
- make,
- make much of,
- make the grade,
- march,
- margin,
- measure,
- meet,
- meet requirements,
- mileage,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- mush,
- neck,
- noose,
- orbit,
- outfield,
- outreach,
- outstretch,
- oval,
- overall length,
- overcharge,
- overdevelop,
- overdistend,
- overdistension,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overdrawing,
- overestimate,
- overexert,
- overexertion,
- overexpand,
- overexpansion,
- overextend,
- overextension,
- overpaint,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstress,
- overstretch,
- overstretching,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- pad,
- parade,
- parsecs,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- period,
- peripatetic journey,
- peripateticism,
- perpetuity,
- perspective,
- physical education,
- physical jerks,
- piece,
- pile it on,
- playground,
- playing field,
- playroom,
- point,
- polo ground,
- pool hall,
- poolroom,
- practice,
- pregnant moment,
- press,
- prison term,
- produce,
- production,
- prolong,
- prolongate,
- prolongation,
- promenade,
- protract,
- protraction,
- psychological moment,
- puff,
- puff up,
- pull,
- pull out,
- pump,
- pump up,
- purview,
- putting green,
- qualify,
- racecourse,
- rack,
- racket court,
- radius,
- raise,
- ramble,
- range,
- rarefy,
- reach,
- reach out,
- rebound,
- region,
- register,
- remoteness,
- resilience,
- resiliency,
- resilient,
- responsive,
- responsiveness,
- rink,
- roll,
- run,
- satisfy,
- saunter,
- scale,
- schlep,
- scop,
- scope,
- scrag,
- season,
- section,
- separation,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- setting-up exercises,
- skating rink,
- snap,
- snapping point,
- snowball,
- soccer field,
- space,
- span,
- spectrum,
- spell,
- spin out,
- sprawl,
- spread,
- spring,
- springiness,
- springy,
- squash court,
- stage,
- stand,
- stand on tiptoes,
- stand up,
- stint,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- strain,
- strain every nerve,
- straining,
- stress,
- stress and strain,
- stressfulness,
- stretch out,
- stretch the truth,
- stretchability,
- stretchable,
- stretchiness,
- stretching,
- stretchy,
- stride,
- string out,
- string up,
- stringing out,
- stroll,
- suffice,
- sufflate,
- supple,
- surround,
- sweat blood,
- sweep,
- swell,
- swelling,
- take in,
- take it,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tauten,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tennis court,
- tense,
- tension,
- tenure,
- term,
- thrust out,
- tighten,
- time,
- time lag,
- tone,
- tonicity,
- tonus,
- tour,
- tour of duty,
- tout,
- track,
- tract,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- travesty,
- trudge,
- tug,
- tumefy,
- turf,
- turn,
- up,
- walk,
- walking tour,
- warp,
- way,
- ways,
- whet,
- while,
- whippy,
- widen,
- work,
- workout,
- yardage,
- yoga