Stretched

  • (adj): (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching.
    Example: "Well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on stretched:

Stretched Verb
... A stretched verb is a complex predicate composed of a light verb and an eventive noun ... or cognate with a synonymous simple verb, or at least requiring the stretched verb to be synonymous with some simple verb ... In English, many stretched verbs are more common than a corresponding simple verb for example "get rid " compared to the verb "rid " or "offer (one's) condolences " vs "condole " ...
Douglas Aircraft - Products - Commercial Airplanes
... Aircraft) DC-10 (with cockpit upgrade designated MD-10) MD-11 (stretched and modernized version of the DC-10) MD-80 Series (stretched and modernized version of the DC-9 ...
Stretched C
... Stretched C (ʗ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet used to represent a kind of click consonant ... Stretched C was part of the International Phonetic Alphabet (where its designation was "postalveolar") until 1989, when it was replaced by ...
Stretched Exponential Function
... The stretched exponential function is obtained by inserting a fractional power law into the exponential function ... exponent β between 0 and 1, the graph of log f versus t is characteristically stretched, whence the name of the function ... In mathematics, the stretched exponential is also known as the complementary cumulative Weibull distribution ...
Stretched Tuning
... Stretched tuning is a detail of musical tuning, applied to wire-stringed musical instruments, older, non-digital electric pianos (such as the Fender Rhodes piano and Wurlitzer electric piano), and some sample-based ... In stretched tuning, two notes an octave apart, whose fundamental frequencies theoretically have an exact 21 ratio, are tuned slightly farther apart ...

More definitions of "stretched":

  • (adj): (of the body) extended to full length.
    Example: "He lay stretched out on the bed"; "stretched her calves before running"
    Synonyms: stretched out
  • (adj): Extended or spread over a wide area or distance.
    Example: "Broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us"

Famous quotes containing the word stretched:

    “Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
    A duskish river dragon stretched along.
    The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
    With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
    And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
    No bigger than a mouse;”
    —Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

    “Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites—opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity—where energies flow smoothly in one direction—there will be much doing but no music.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)