0 present participle of stretch --
1 to cause something to reach, often as far as possible, in a particular direction: --
3 to go as far as or past the usual limit of something: --
Normally, people under 18 aren't allowed, but I guess we can stretch the rules for you as it's your birthday tomorrow.
This movie really stretches the patience of the audience to the limit.
We can't work any harder, Paul. We're already fully stretched.
Many families' budgets are already stretched to breaking point.
4 to (cause a material to) become longer or wider than usual as a result of pulling at the edges: --
Quartz-feldspar ribbons and aggregates define a mineral stretching lineation.
The second is that the development of most systems of service provision entails the creation of platforms of activities stretching across sectors and industries.
This stretching can be accompanied by extreme lowering of the larynx (or extreme raising of the tongue, to uvular position).
The axial planes of these ductile folds generally parallel the stretching lineation.
The same perception differences apply with commonly used procedures in composition such as transposition, stretching or superposition of sounds.
Some even predicted a near-global meltdown with famines stretching across our globe.
Ideal pure shear is characterized by a stretching eigenvector parallel to the shear zone boundaries, and a perpendicular shortening eigenvector.
It is stretching credibility that this context does not shape the kind of research it commissions and the answers that it gets.
