Stretch

Definition

stretch /stretʃ/ v ၁။ (က) ဆြဲသည္။ ဆန္႔သည္။ stretch a pair of gloves shoes. (ခ) စန္႔သည္။ ျပန္႔သည္။ The cardigan stretched when I washed it and now it's far too big for me. ❍ The shoes will stretch after you've worn them a few times. ၂။ ဆန္႔သည္။ ဆြဲသည္။ The mooring rope was stretched tight/taut. ❍ The polythene was stretched over wire hoops. ❍ stretch a cable across (a gorge). ၃။ (အေညာင္း)ဆန္႔သည္။ (ေျခ၊ လက္)ဆန္႔သည္၊ လွမ္းသည္၊ ကမ္းသည္။ He woke up, yawned and stretched. ❍ stretch one's arms/legs ❍ She stretched across the table for the butter. ❍ He stretched out (his hand) to take the book. ❍ She stretched her arm towards the shelf but couldn't reach it. ၄။ (က) ~ sth (out) (to sth) (ၾကာၾကာခံေအာင္) ဆန္႔သည္။ (ရွည္ၾကာေအာင္)ဆြဲသည္။ stretch one's resources (to their limits) ❍ stretch out one's money ❍ I can probably stretch my stay to a full week. (ခ) ~ to sth ေလာက္သည္။ I'd love a new coat if our money will stretch that far. ❍ Why don't you eat with us—I'm sure the food will stretch to five. ၅။ ဆန္႔သည္။ စန္႔သည္။ တန္းသည္။ forests stretching for hundreds of miles ❍ The road stretched out across the desert. ❍ The long summer vacation stretched ahead (of them). ၆။ အာဏာကုန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ အစြမ္းကုန္ အားထုတ္သည္။ တက္ကုန္၊ လက္ကုန္ က်ံဳးသည္။ The race really stretched him/his skill as a runner. ❍ She has not really been stretched at school this term. ❍ We can't take on any more work—we're fully stretched already. ❍ The disaster stretched the city's emergency services to the limits. ၇။ ဆြဲဆန္႔သည္။ ခ်ဲ႕ကားသည္။ stretch the truth (ie exaggerate or lie) ❍ stretch the meaning of a word. n ၁။ [C] ~ (of sth) တစ္ေက်ာ့။ တစ္ကန္႔။ တစ္ဆန္႔။ a beautiful stretch of countryside ❍ a long stretch of open road ❍ a calm stretch of water. ၂။ တစ္ဆက္တည္းလုပ္ခ်ိန္။ work in long stretches ❍ a four hour stretch on duty ❍ She worked for six hours at a stretch. ၃။ [ C usu sing ] ဆန္႔ျခင္း။ He got out of bed, had a good stretch and began to get dressed. ၄။ [U] ဆန္႔အား။ This material has a lot of stretch in it. ❍ stretch jeans/seat-covers/underwear. ၅။ [C usu sing ] ( sl ) ေထာင္က်ျခင္း။ He did a stretch for armed robbery. ၆။ [C usu sing ] (ပန္းအဝင္) လမ္းေျဖာင့္။ be in the final/finishing stretch. See also THE HOME STRETCH ❏ not by any/by no stretch of the imagination [ IDM ] လံုးဝမျဖစ္ႏိုင္။ By no stretch of the imagination could you call him ambitious. ❏ stretch one's legs [ IDM ] ေျခေညာင္းလက္ဆန္႔ လမ္း ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ အေညာင္းေျပ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ သည္။ We stopped and got out of the car to stretch our legs. ❏ stretch marks n [pl] ဗိုက္ေၾကာျပတ္ရာ။ ❏ stretch (oneself) out [ PHRV ] ေျခဆင္းလဲလူ ေနသည္။ He stretched (himself) out on the sofa and fell asleep. ❏ stretch a point [ IDM ] ႁခြင္းခ်က္ျပဳသည္။ She was hoping they would stretch a point and allow her to stay in the hostel an extra week. ❏ stretchy /'stretʃi/ adj ( infml ) ဆြဲဆန္႔၍ရေသာ။ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္း ေသာ။ stretchy fabrics.

Examples

1. I’ll have to get these shoes stretched.
2. Her new knitted dress had stretched.
3. When you’re pregnant it helps to wear fabrics that stretch as you grow.
4. A folding chair made of white canvas stretched on a metal frame
5. The little birds are caught in nets stretched between the trees.
6. I leaned back in the chair and stretched.
7. This exercise strengthens the lower back and stretches the hamstrings.
8. He stretched his hand towards her.
9. [stretch into/from/to/for/across] : The empire stretched all the way from Scotland to the Pyrenees.
10. The beach stretches for miles in each direction.
11. Old grey houses stretched into the distance.
12. [stretch as far as the eye can see] : The traffic stretched as far as the eye could see.
13. [stretch to/into/over/beyond/back] : Paul’s initial two months’ work experience ultimately stretched to five.
14. Negotiations had now stretched into a twelfth day.
15. They had an unbeaten record stretching back to 1995.
16. [stretch to] : I don’t really think my salary will stretch to a designer suit.
17. At best
18. police resources are stretched.
19. [stretch something to the limit] : Medical services were stretched to the limit.
20. I don’t think his job really stretches him sufficiently.
21. [stretch (someone’s) credulity/patience etc] : Foreman’s book has a plot that stretches credulity to the utmost.
22. We might be prepared to stretch the rules a little in this instance.
23. [stretch a point] : Couldn’t you stretch a point for a friend?