What is the meaning of STRETCH. Phrases containing STRETCH
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Straight and flat stretch of track upon which an engineer can safely make unusually high speed. Also parallel stretches of track of two competing railroads upon which rival trains race one another (contrary to company rules but much to the delight of enginemen, trainmen, and passengers, and perhaps to the secret delight of some officials)
Take out slack in couplings and drawbars of train
Stretch is slang for to hang or be hanged by the neck. Stretch is slang for a year of imprisonment.Stretch is slang for a year.Stretch is American slang for a tall, thin person.
Stretched is slang for hanged.
n. something that has been expanded; to reproduce in larger quantity, usually in reference to money. "Yo son, my cash is mad stretched." Lyrical reference: About Me - RAEKWON stretched out, moving professional, frying more fish. I heard it in slurs, them niggas is blessed. While we ball to the maximum, give me the floor, for real I show off and let my money get stretched.Â
A real estate agent who sells a home in an upper-class white neighborhood to a black family, thus lowering the values of other homes in the neighborhood. (This can be stretched to include inviting a black or minority friend over for dinner.)
Telling a tall tale.
Staff used on certain stretches of track to control the block. It is carried by engine crews from one station to another. Now rare
Half a stretch is criminal slang for six months imprisonment.
an open stretch of grassy marshland
Stretcher is Australian and New Zealand slang for a camp bed. Stretcher is slang for an exaggeration or lie.
Where two block signals control the same stretch of track OWL-Streetcar or train that runs late at night; almost anything having to do with night
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n.
Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
v. i.
To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
v. i.
To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
v. t.
To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
v. i.
To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
n.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
n.
The extent to which anything may be stretched.
v. i.
To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
n.
One who, or that which, stretches.
v. t.
To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
n.
Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
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n.
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
v. t.
To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
v. i.
To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
v. t.
To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
n.
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
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