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 →

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

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 →
• 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

• "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.
• Stretching after sport helps keep you flexible, but studies show it does very little to stop next-day soreness.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stretching» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.