Stretch

Stretch can refer to:

  • Stretching is a form of exercise or a pre-exercise discipline, sometimes called Warming up
  • Stretch ceiling, a type of ceiling made from polymer.
  • Stretch ratio in the mechanics of materials
  • Stretched tuning of certain string instruments
  • The IBM 7030 Stretch computer
  • Stretch limousine
  • Stretch (rapper), a friend of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Span (architecture) of a structure.
  • Stretch Records, an independent record label
  • Stretch marks, type of skin scarring
  • Stretch (album), an album by Scott Walker
  • Stretch (band), a 1970s UK band
  • Stretch (film), a 2011 film starring David Carradine
  • Stretch, a purple toy octopus in the film Toy Story 3 (see List of Toy Story characters)
  • Another name for the set, one of two legal pitching positions in baseball
  • Stretch (game), a game played by American boys in the 1950s, in which a jackknife is thrown alternatingly by two boys facing each other. If the knife sticks in the ground, the other boy stretches his foot to that spot and draws out the knife.

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Famous quotes containing the word stretch:

    “These Flemish pictures of old days;
    Sit with me by the homestead hearth,
    And stretch the hands of memory forth
    To warm them at the wood-fire’s blaze!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    “When Sheba was his lass,
    When she the iron wrought, or
    When from the smithy fire
    It shuddered in the water:
    Harshness of their desire
    That made them stretch and yawn....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)