adj
Meaning 1
Requiring a high level of effort or performance.
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Standard Lemma guide
stretching
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Pronunciation
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/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ɛtʃɪŋ
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noun
Meaning 2
The act by which something is stretched.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of stretch
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 5
act of expanding by lengthening or widening
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: expansion, enlargement
Narrower terms: tension, extension
noun
Meaning 6
exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stretch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout
Narrower terms: pandiculation
History
Etymology
From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English streċċende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjandī, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch + -ing.
From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: расця́жка (rascjážka) — a form of physical exercise
- Bulgarian: разтя́гане (raztjágane) — a form of physical exercise
- Czech: strečink — a form of physical exercise
- Czech: protahování — a form of physical exercise
- French: étirement — a form of physical exercise
- French: stretching — a form of physical exercise
- German: Dehngymnastik — a form of physical exercise
- Hungarian: nyújtás — a form of physical exercise
- Hungarian: kinyújtás — a form of physical exercise
- Italian: allungamento — a form of physical exercise
- Italian: stiramento — a form of physical exercise
- Japanese: ストレッチ (sutoretchi) — a form of physical exercise
- Japanese: ストレッチング (sutoretchingu) — a form of physical exercise
- Japanese: ストレッチ体操 (sutoretchi taisō) — a form of physical exercise
- Korean: 스트레칭 (seuteureching) — a form of physical exercise
- Polish: stretching — a form of physical exercise
- Portuguese: alongamento — a form of physical exercise
- Russian: растя́жка (rastjážka) — a form of physical exercise
- Spanish: estiramiento — a form of physical exercise
- Swedish: stretching — a form of physical exercise
- Swedish: stretchning — a form of physical exercise
- Ukrainian: розтя́жка (roztjážka) — a form of physical exercise
- Unami: shipcheokàn — a form of physical exercise
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