different between widening vs stretching

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?d?n??/

Adjective

widening (not comparable)

1. Growing wider or farther apart.
   • 1920 — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

Noun

widening (plural widenings)

1. The action of the verb widen.
   • 1887 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla

Translations

Verb

widening

1. present participle of widen

Anagrams

• indewing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??t???/
• Rhymes: -?t???
• Hyphenation: stretch?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch +? -ing.

Noun

stretching (countable and uncountable, plural stretchings)

1. The act by which something is stretched.
2. 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.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English stre??ende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjand?, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch +? -ing.

Adjective

stretching (comparative more stretching, superlative most stretching)

1. Requiring a high level of effort or performance.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:stretching.

Verb

stretching

1. present participle of stretch

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English stretching.

Noun

stretching m (uncountable)

1. stretching

Further reading

• stretching in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana