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stretch
English
Etymology
From Middle English strecchen, from Old English stre??an (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Verb
stretch (third-person singular simple present stretches, present participle stretching, simple past and past participle stretched or (obsolete) straught or (obsolete) straight)
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- (intransitive) To extend to a limit point
- (transitive) To increase.
- (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- (slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
Translations
See also
- pandiculate
Noun
stretch (plural stretches)
- An act of stretching.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A segment or length of material.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A walk.
- Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
- In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.
- Evelyn Underhill, quoted in 2010, Evelyn Underhill, ?Carol Poston, The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill (page 81)
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A length of time.
- After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever […]
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- Synonym: stint
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A stretch limousine.
Translations
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: stre?i
Further reading
- stretch at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
- (a walk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- strecht
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climb
English
Etymology
From Middle English climben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimban? (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *kliban?, *klib?n? (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla?m/, [k?la?m]
- Rhymes: -a?m
- Homophone: clime
Verb
climb (third-person singular simple present climbs, present participle climbing, simple past climbed or (archaic) clomb, past participle climbed or (archaic) clumb)
- (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
- Prices climbed steeply.
- Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
- (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree
- (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
- (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough Chapter 65
- A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
- 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough Chapter 65
- (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing
- (intransitive) to jump high
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Usage notes
In the past, the forms clomb and clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectal.
Synonyms
(get to the top of):
- scale
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
climb (plural climbs)
- An act of climbing.
- The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb, its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
- 1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
- I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- An upwards struggle
Derived terms
- rate of climb
Translations
Italian
Etymology
From English climb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klajm/, /?klajmb/
Noun
climb m (usually invariable, plural climbs)
- (aviation) variometer, rate-of-climb indicator
- Synonym: variometro
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