English-French translations for stretch

• dégourdir
• étendre
  Il me semble que ce serait par trop étendre les pouvoirs du commissaire. I think that might be stretching the Commissioner's powers a little bit.
  L' enquête doit s' étendre de l' époque du cabinet Delors jusqu' à la Commission Prodi. Any examination of the case must stretch all the way from the Delors cabinet up until Mr Prodi' s Commission.
  Je consacrerai les quelques secondes qui me restent à avertir ceux qui m'écoutent contre le danger de prendre des otages dans ce processus qui va s'étendre sur les années à venir. In my remaining seconds I would like to warn anyone who is listening against the dangers of seeking to take hostages in this process that will stretch out in the years ahead.
• étirement
  Cette situation risque de gagner de l'ampleur à l'avenir du fait de l'étirement et de l'épuisement des systèmes de sécurité sociale imposés par les restrictions financières des gouvernements. This may well become more important in the future as social security systems become very stretched and strained because of government financial restrictions.
• étirer
  Entendre dire que le communiqué du G8 sur le changement climatique est ambitieux revient à étirer la langue anglaise jusqu’à la limite du point de rupture. Hearing the G8 communiqué on climate change being called ambitious stretches the English language almost to breaking point.
  Aussi, lors de l'examen de la loi hongroise, la Commission a dû "étirer" certains arguments et les baser sur le traité actuel (liberté des entreprises) plutôt que sur la directive SMA. So when the Hungarian law was being analysed, the Commission had to 'stretch' certain arguments and base them on the actual Treaty (freedom of enterprise) rather than the Directive.
• raidir
• s'étendre
  Je consacrerai les quelques secondes qui me restent à avertir ceux qui m'écoutent contre le danger de prendre des otages dans ce processus qui va s'étendre sur les années à venir. In my remaining seconds I would like to warn anyone who is listening against the dangers of seeking to take hostages in this process that will stretch out in the years ahead.
• s'étirer
• tendre
  Il me semble que ce serait par trop étendre les pouvoirs du commissaire. I think that might be stretching the Commissioner's powers a little bit.
  C’est donc à cette autre Iran que nous devons essayer de tendre la main. It is to this other Iran, then, that we should try to stretch out a hand.
  L' enquête doit s' étendre de l' époque du cabinet Delors jusqu' à la Commission Prodi. Any examination of the case must stretch all the way from the Delors cabinet up until Mr Prodi' s Commission.
• tension

Definition of stretch

• To lengthen by pulling
• To lengthen when pulled
• To pull tight
• To get more use than expected from a limited resource
• To make inaccurate by exaggeration
• To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point
• To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
• To extend to a limit point
• To increase
• To stretch the truth; to exaggerate
• To sail by the wind under press of canvas
• To execute by hanging
• An act of stretching. but not in all senses? --
• The ability to lengthen when pulled
• A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration
• A segment of a journey or route
• A segment or length of material
• A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it
• The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish
• A stretch limousine

Examples

• I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke
• The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point
• First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum
• I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days
• To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably
• The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble
• Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack
• I always stretch my muscles before exercising
• His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns
• a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
• The ship stretched to the eastward.
• I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
• That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
• Its a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
• To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
• It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
• Its a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.
• a stretch of cloth
• There is a grand stretch in the evenings.
• He did a seven-year stretch in jail.

Related words

• stretcher
• stretching
• homestretch
• stretched
• stretchability
• stretchable
• stretchy
• stretcher-bearer
• outstretched