stretching

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act by which something is stretched.

   [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.

2. 2
   noun

   act of expanding by lengthening or widening

3. 3
   noun

   exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Requiring a high level of effort or performance.

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of stretch

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.