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Stretch can be a verb or a noun.
stretch used as a verb:
- To lengthen by pulling.
"I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke." - To lengthen when pulled.
"The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point." - To pull tight.
"First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum." - To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
"I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days." - To be inaccurate by exaggeration.
"To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably." - To extend from limit point to limit point.
"The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble." - To extend one's limbs or body in order to stretch the muscles.
"Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
stretch used as a noun:
- An act of stretching.
"I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang." - The ability to lengthen when pulled.
"That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch." - A course of thought which similarly diverts from 'straight' logic
- A segment of a journey or route.
"It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever." - A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- 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.
- A length of time
"He did a 7-year stretch in jail."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is stretch?
- Verb usage: I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
- Verb usage: The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
- Verb usage: First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
- Verb usage: I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
- Verb usage: To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
- Verb usage: The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
- Verb usage: Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
- Noun usage: I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
- Noun usage: To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
- Noun usage: That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
- Noun usage: It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
- Noun usage: He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stretch are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stretch, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
