Stretch

Verb

 * 1)  To lengthen by pulling.
 * 2)  To lengthen when pulled.
 * 3)  To pull tight.
 * 4)   To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
 * 5)   To be inaccurate by exaggeration.
 * 6)  To extend from limit point to limit point.
 * 7)  or  To extend one’s limbs or body in order to stretch the muscles.
 * 8)  To extend to a limit point

Noun

 * 1) An act of stretching.
 * 2) The ability to lengthen when pulled.
 * 3) A course of thought which similarly diverts from 'straight' logic
 * 4) A segment of a journey or route.
 * 5)  A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
 * 6)  A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
 * 7) A length of time

Adverbs for Stretch
inordinately; gruesomely; indulgently; beauteously; dismayingly; generously; moderately; tightly; abnormally; piteously; consciously; symmetrically; interminably; indolently; casually.

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

Etymology
From strecchen:, from  streccan:, from, from. Cognate with strekken:,  strecken:,  strække:,  sträcka:,  strak:. More at.

Related terms

 * at full stretch
 * by a long stretch
 * cat stretch
 * outstretch
 * overstretch
 * seventh inning stretch
 * stretchable
 * stretch limo
 * stretch of the imagination
 * stretch mark
 * stretch out
 * stretch pants
 * stretcher
 * stretchy

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 伸張, 伸张 (shēnzhāng)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kinyújt, kifeszít
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 伸ばす (のばす, nobasu)
 * Korean: 당기다 (danggida)


 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: вытягивать, вытянуть ; растягивать , растянуть
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సాగదీయు (saagadeeyu)
 * Turkish: germek,, uzatmak


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: dehnen, ausleiern
 * Korean: 당기다 (danggida)
 * Russian: вытягиваться, вытянуться ; растягиваться , растянуться


 * Spanish: estirarse, dar
 * Telugu: సాగు (saagu)
 * Turkish: uzamak, gerilmek


 * Dutch: aanspannen, rechttrekken,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Korean: 당기다 (danggida)


 * Old English:
 * Russian: натягивать, натянуть


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Russian: растягивать, растянуть


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch: zich (uit)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Korean: 뻗다 (ppeotda)


 * Portuguese: espreguiçar-se
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఒళ్ళు విరుచుకొను (oLLu viruchukonu)
 * Turkish: gerinmek


 * Dutch:, (zich uit)
 * French: s'étendre


 * Spanish: extenderse
 * Turkish:, yayılmak

Noun

 * Finnish: venyttely (stretching body), liioittelu (stretching eg. truth)
 * French:


 * Spanish: estirón
 * Turkish: gerinme


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kimmoisuus, venyvyys


 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, elastikiyet


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Spanish: trecho,