stretchy

«stretchy» in Mova's school dictionary: able to stretch, to become longer or wider when you pull… — 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

adjective (stretchy, stretchier, stretchiest)

meaning for a pupil

Stretchy means able to stretch, to become longer or wider when you pull it, and often to go back to its shape after. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about materials, «stretchy» is a property: rubber bands, elastic, Lycra and balloons are stretchy, while glass and wood are not. Pupils test which materials are stretchy and fair-test how far they stretch. In everyday life clothes for sport are made of stretchy fabric. Words that mean nearly the same: elastic, flexible.

examples

• Rubber bands are stretchy. tree →
• I wear stretchy leggings for gymnastics. tree →
• Pizza cheese gets stretchy when it's hot. tree →
• Which material is the stretchiest? tree →
• The slime was gooey and stretchy. tree →
• Swimming costumes are made of stretchy fabric. tree →
• Bubble gum is stretchy when you chew it. tree →

note

Comparative: stretchier, stretchiest. From «stretch» + -y. «Stretchy» is informal; in science reports «elastic» is the more exact word: an elastic material returns to its shape; some stretchy things (like gum) do not.

In the corpora

• For its weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and very stretchy, which is why scientists study it so closely.
• Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.
• Kneading lines up gluten proteins into long stretchy strands that trap the gas like balloons.
• Soapy water also makes a stretchy film that you can blow into bubbles, and a free bubble always pulls itself into a ball.
• Glassblowers shape glass that is over 1000 °C, when it is soft and stretchy.

Trees and pragmatics

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