stretch
/stɹɛtʃ/
Misollar
- Stretch your muscles to prevent injuries.
- We need to stretch our legs.
- This stretch of road is narrower.
- This stretch of road is unsurfaced.
- We're in the home stretch.
- Stretch out your hand to me.
fe’l verb
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To lengthen by pulling.
I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
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To lengthen when pulled.
The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
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To pull tight.
First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
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To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
ot noun
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An act of stretching.
I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
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The ability to lengthen when pulled.
That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
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A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
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A segment of a journey or route.
It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.