Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
{v} to extend, strain, expand, display, advance as a ship close hauled under a press of sail
{i} act of stretching; condition of being stretched; large expanse; stretchiness, elasticity; duration of time; period of imprisonment
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
A stretch of time is a period of time. after an 18-month stretch in the army He would study for eight to ten hours at a stretch
If something stretches your money or resources, it uses them up so you have hardly enough for your needs. The drought there is stretching American resources Public expenditure was being stretched to the limit by having to support 3 million unemployed people
If something stretches from one time to another, it begins at the first time and ends at the second, which is longer than expected. a working day that stretches from seven in the morning to eight at night
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
(n) the degree to which a material can accommodate deforming tension; (v) the tensioning of screen printing fabric preparatory to securing it to the printing frame, or by self-stretching frame
To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings
A stretch of road, water, or land is a length or area of it. It's a very dangerous stretch of road
To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances
A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land
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"
n a form of shoot where one wrestler dominates rather than injures the other as a proof of personal superiority
exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent a straightaway section of a racetrack the capacity for being stretched a large and unbroken expanse or distance; "a stretch of highway"; "a stretch of clear water"
emphasis If you say that something is not true or possible by any stretch of the imagination, you are emphasizing that it is completely untrue or absolutely impossible. Her husband was not a womaniser by any stretch of the imagination
A carpet installation term for the give in carpet when it is pulled over pad onto tackless strips