stretching

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
• Hyphenation: stretch‧ing

From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch +‎ -ing.

stretching (countable and uncountable, plural stretchings)

1. The act by which something is stretched.
   • 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:

     [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.

2. A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.

From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English streċċende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjandī, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch +‎ -ing.

stretching (comparative more stretching, superlative most stretching)

1. Requiring a high level of effort or performance.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:stretching.

stretching

1. present participle of stretch

Unadapted borrowing from English stretching.

stretching m (uncountable)

1. stretching

• stretching in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• stretchning

Borrowed from English stretching.

stretching c

1. stretching (form of physical exercise)

• stretcha

• stretching in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stretching in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)