stretching
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 →
2) Stretching something means pulling it so it gets longer or wider, like a rubber band. tree →
3) Stretching means spreading over a distance or time: fields stretching to the hills. tree →
4) Stretching yourself means doing something harder than usual to learn more. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In Isaiah, the "stretching out of wings" is a picture of an invading army spreading over the whole land. A land "stretching afar" describes a wide, peaceful country under a good king. In the primary 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
- Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar. (Prophets ISA.33.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. (Prophets ISA.8.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- We start PE by stretching our legs and arms. tree →
- The cat was stretching in the sunshine. tree →
- Stretching the rubber band too far will snap it. tree →
- The beach was stretching for miles. tree →
- Stretching after running stops your muscles getting stiff. tree →
- Saying you finished all your homework is stretching the truth. tree →
- This maths problem is stretching my brain. tree →
- There was a row stretching from the gate of the town up to the castle. tree →
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
- Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.
- "Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes lying.
- A Mercator map cannot show the North or South Pole at all, because the stretching would grow without limit there.
- A spit is a long finger of sand or shingle stretching out from the coast into the sea.
- A warm-up gets the blood flowing and prepares muscles and joints, but stretching alone doesn't prevent every injury.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stretching» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.