stretch

IPA: strˈɛtʃ

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.
(UK, slang, archaic) A walk.
(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.
(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.
(slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
A stretch limousine.

(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
(intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
(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.
(slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
(transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.

Examples of "stretch" in Sentences

Plus, strong pitching down the stretch is the key ingredient, and it carries over to the postseason.
"The thing that has impressed me the most about our team down the stretch is our toughness," Roy Williams said.
They're the top three-point shooting teams, and they all have what I call stretch forwards who can pop out and take threes.
They'd make you what they call stretch out, put you on more work to do for the same amount of money, and that sort of thing.
Doumit felt what he described as a stretch in his wrist, but it wasn't until after the game and on Monday that his wrist began to ache.
First, keep in mind that the term "stretch," does not denote a specific type of IRA, but rather a financial strategy to stretch out the life--and hence the tax advantages--of an IRA.
Photos of areas like this always accompany newspaper articles about the horrors of unmanaged development, and a drive down this stretch is a good antidote for syrupy nostalgia over the pre-interstate era.
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Before Congress created Roth IRAs, the term "stretch IRA" was used to describe the strategy in which a spouse, child or grandchild inherits a traditional pretax IRA and then draws out distributions and hence tax deferral over his or own life expectancy.