stretch
part of speech
verb (stretch, stretches, stretched, stretching); noun (a stretch, stretches)
meaning for a pupil
1) To make something longer or wider by pulling it. tree →
2) To push out your arms, legs or body as far as they go. tree →
3) To spread over a distance or time: "The beach stretches for miles." tree →
4) As a noun, an act of stretching, or a long piece of land, water, road or time. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE, we stretch before and after exercise to warm up and to avoid injury. In science, elastic materials like rubber bands stretch and spring back. In maths, stretching a shape makes it bigger in one direction. Phrases: stretch out, stretch your legs, a stretch of road, at a stretch, stretch the truth.
examples
- Stretch your arms up high. tree →
- We stretch before every race. tree →
- The rubber band stretched and then snapped. tree →
- The desert stretches for hundreds of kilometres. tree →
- That stretch of road is dangerous. tree →
- He slept for ten hours at a stretch. tree →
- Saying he caught a whale is stretching the truth. tree →
- And Karen stretched out her little foot. tree →
note
Regular verb: stretched, stretching; noun plural "stretches". "Stretch the truth" means exaggerate. "Stretchy" means it stretches easily. In science, materials that stretch and go back to their shape are "elastic".
In the corpora
- Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.
- Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.
- A pterosaur wing was skin stretched from a very long fourth finger.
- A silkworm grows thousands of times heavier in about a month and sheds its skin four times, because old skin cannot stretch.
- And a body part that is stretched or hurt during a life is never passed on.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stretch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.