0 past simple and past 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: --
The stiff string no longer has a strictly harmonic overtone recipe, with intervals becoming increasingly stretched between higher modes.
The processing involves tuning the pitch of the whistle to the resonant frequencies imposed on the train sounds which are combined with a stretched version.
The stretched pulse when being amplified in the system is kept below saturation fluences.
One refers to movement and social relations stretched across multiple borders, and the other to a sense of self and group identity that differentiates communities.
Modern society has witnessed increased longevity and this has raised expectations that the life-span will continue to be stretched.
This is clearly a mammoth task, and one which a book of 242 pages is stretched to achieve.
An individual's creative contributions to a given text allow propositions to be molded, stretched, and ultimately accepted as true.
These solitary waves are determined by the physical parameters of the plasma, and their formation may also depend on the stretched coordinates.
