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# stretching

«stretching» in Mova's school dictionary: **making your body or a part of it longer by reaching out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (-ing of stretch: stretch, stretches, stretched, stretching); noun (stretching — exercise); adjective (stretching — hard, demanding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stretching means making your body or a part of it longer by reaching out arms and legs or pulling muscles gently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#m1)

2) Stretching something means pulling it so it gets longer or wider, like a rubber band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#m2)

3) Stretching means spreading over a distance or time: fields stretching to the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#m3)

4) Stretching yourself means doing something harder than usual to learn more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In PE: warm up by stretching to prepare muscles and prevent injuries; stretch gently, never bounce. In science: materials like rubber and elastic stretch and spring back (elastic), while some do not. In everyday life, a cat stretching after a nap. In maths, stretching a shape (enlargement) makes it bigger. Phrases: stretching exercises, stretch your legs, stretching out, stretching the truth.

### examples

- We start PE by stretching our legs and arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x1)
- The cat was stretching in the sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x2)
- Stretching the rubber band too far will snap it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x3)
- The beach was stretching for miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x4)
- Stretching after running stops your muscles getting stiff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x5)
- Saying you finished all your homework is stretching the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x6)
- This maths problem is stretching my brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x7)
- There was a row stretching from the gate of the town up to the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/#x8)

### note

Form of «stretch»: stretched, stretching. «Stretching the truth» means exaggerating or almost lying. Safety: stretch slowly until you feel a gentle pull, not pain. A «stretch» of road or time is a length of it.

### In the corpora

- ["Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes lying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/17/)
- [A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because the stretching would grow without limit there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/9/)
- [A spit is a long finger of sand or shingle stretching out from the coast into the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/11/)
- [A warm-up gets the blood flowing and prepares muscles and joints, but stretching alone doesn't prevent every injury.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/11/)
- [Stretching after sport helps keep you flexible, but studies show it does very little to stop next-day soreness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/39-sore-the-next-day-stretching-and-rest-days/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stretching» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stretching/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.