stretch

Signification (Anglais)

1. To lengthen by pulling.
2. To lengthen when pulled.
3. To pull tight.
4. To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
5. To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
6. To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
7. To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
8. To extend to a limit point
9. To increase.
10. (colloquial,obsolete) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
11. To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
12. (slang) To execute by hanging.
13. To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.

étendre

étirer

s’étirer

s’étendre

se détendre

s’élargir

se répandre

être fatigué

s’allonger

s’appuyer

se prolonger

s’étaler

s’exercer à

tronçon

être flatté

être prolongé

être retardé

être coûteux

mener par la bride

s'étendre

s'étirer

stretch oneself

draw tight

pull tight

become longer

become wider

stretch along

make straight

be extended

lengthen out

make longer

reach to

stand on tiptoe

period of time

hand up

shuffle off

yield

become deeper

be drawn

be elastic

be lengthened

cover over

gain influence

make bigger

make progress

make taut

move on

pull taut

put forth

rax

reach for

sow in

stick into

unmediated

prison term

reach out for

make tense

grow long

make big

support each other

make long

bush out

uncurving

straight scale

rectilinear scale

set up hard

drawout

make smaller

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stɹɛt͡ʃ/

From Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan (“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.