Stretch vs. Rake

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  • Stretch (verb)

    To lengthen by pulling.

    “I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To lengthen when pulled.

    “The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To pull tight.

    “First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To get more use than expected from a limited resource.

    “I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To make inaccurate by exaggeration.

    “To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of “brave” considerably.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.

    “The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one’s muscles

    “Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.”

    “I always stretch my muscles before exercising.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To extend to a limit point

    “His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To increase.

  • Stretch (verb)

    To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.

    “a man apt to stretch in his report of facts”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To sail by the wind under press of canvas.

    “The ship stretched to the eastward.”

  • Stretch (verb)

    To execute by hanging.

  • Stretch (noun)

    An act of stretching.

    “I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.”

  • Stretch (noun)

    The ability to lengthen when pulled.

    “That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.”

  • Stretch (noun)

    A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.

    “It’s a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.”

    “To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.”

  • Stretch (noun)

    A segment of a journey or route.

    “It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.”

    “It’s a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.”

  • Stretch (noun)

    A segment or length of material.

    “a stretch of cloth”

  • Stretch (noun)

    A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.

  • Stretch (noun)

    A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.

  • Stretch (noun)

    Term of address for a tall person.

  • Stretch (noun)

    The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.

  • Stretch (noun)

    A length of time.

  • Stretch (noun)

    Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.

    “There is a grand stretch in the evenings.”

  • Stretch (noun)

    The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.

  • Stretch (noun)

    A jail or prison term.

    “He did a seven-year stretch in jail.”

  • Stretch (noun)

    A jail or prison term of one year’s duration.

  • Stretch (noun)

    A stretch limousine.

  • Rake (noun)

    A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.

  • Rake (noun)

    A lot, plenty.

    “Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.”

  • Rake (noun)

    A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

    “The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”

  • Rake (noun)

    A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

  • Rake (noun)

    The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.

  • Rake (noun)

    A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

  • Rake (noun)

    A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

  • Rake (noun)

    Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.

  • Rake (noun)

    The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.

  • Rake (noun)

    The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

  • Rake (noun)

    A man habituated to immoral conduct.

  • Rake (noun)

    A course; direction; stretch.

  • Rake (noun)

    A range, stray.

    “a sheep-raik = a sheep-walk”

  • Rake (verb)

    To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.

    “We raked all the leaves into a pile”

  • Rake (verb)

    To search thoroughly.

    “Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. — Captain John Blaine”

  • Rake (verb)

    To spray with gunfire.

    “the enemy machine guns raked the roadway”

  • Rake (verb)

    To claw at; to scratch.

    “Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.”

  • Rake (verb)

    To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)

    “The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a license to print money.”

  • Rake (verb)

    To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

  • Rake (verb)

    To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.

  • Rake (verb)

    To guide; to direct

  • Rake (verb)

    To incline from a perpendicular direction.

    “A mast rakes aft.”

  • Rake (verb)

    To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

  • Rake (verb)

    To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

  • Rake (verb)

    Of a dog or hawk, to follow the wrong course; to go wide of the game being pursued.

  • Rake (verb)

    To run or rove.

Wiktionary
  • Rake (noun)

    an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.

  • Rake (noun)

    an implement similar to a rake used for other purposes, e.g. by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table.

  • Rake (noun)

    an act of raking

    “giving the lawn a rake”

  • Rake (noun)

    a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits

    “a merry Restoration rake”

  • Rake (noun)

    the angle at which a thing slopes

    “you can adjust the rake of the backrests”

  • Rake (noun)

    the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.

  • Rake (noun)

    a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together

    “we have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking”

  • Rake (noun)

    a herd of colts.

  • Rake (verb)

    draw together with a rake or similar implement

    “they started raking up hay”

  • Rake (verb)

    make (ground) smooth with a rake

    “I sometimes rake over the allotment”

  • Rake (verb)

    scratch or scrape (something, especially a person’s flesh) with a long sweeping movement

    “her fingers raked Bill’s face”

  • Rake (verb)

    draw or drag (something) through something with a sweeping movement

    “she raked a comb through her hair”

  • Rake (verb)

    sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light

    “the road was raked with machine-gun fire”

  • Rake (verb)

    move across something with a long sweeping movement

    “his icy gaze raked mercilessly over Lissa’s slender figure”

  • Rake (verb)

    search or rummage through something

    “he raked through his pockets and brought out a five-pound note”

  • Rake (verb)

    set (something) at a sloping angle

    “the floor is steeply raked”

  • Rake (verb)

    (of a ship’s mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern

    “her long clipper bow and raked mast”

  • Rake (verb)

    (of a ship’s bow or stern) project at its upper part beyond the keel.

Oxford Dictionary

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