Stretch vs. Rake

Stretchverb

(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.

Stretchverb

(intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.

Stretchverb

(transitive) To pull tight.

Stretchverb

To get more use than expected from a limited resource.

Stretchverb

To make inaccurate by exaggeration.

Stretchverb

(intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.

Stretchverb

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

Stretchverb

(intransitive) To extend to a limit point

Stretchverb

(transitive) To increase.

Stretchverb

To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.

Stretchverb

(nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.

Stretchverb

To execute by hanging.

Stretchnoun

An act of stretching.

Stretchnoun

The ability to lengthen when pulled.

Stretchnoun

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

Stretchnoun

A segment of a journey or route.

Stretchnoun

A segment or length of material.

Stretchnoun

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

Stretchnoun

(baseball) 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.

Stretchnoun

(informal) Term of address for a tall person.

Stretchnoun

(horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.

Stretchnoun

A length of time.

Stretchnoun

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

Stretchnoun

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

Stretchnoun

(slang) A jail or prison term.

Stretchnoun

A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.

Stretchnoun

A stretch limousine.

Stretchverb

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

Stretchverb

To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.

Stretchverb

To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.

Stretchverb

To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.

Stretchverb

To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

Stretchverb

To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.

Stretchverb

To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.

Stretchverb

To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.

Stretchverb

To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.

Stretchverb

To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.

Stretchverb

To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.

Stretchnoun

Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.

Stretchnoun

A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.

Stretchnoun

The extent to which anything may be stretched.

Stretchnoun

The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.

Stretchnoun

Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.

Stretchnoun

a large and unbroken expanse or distance;

Stretchnoun

the act of physically reaching or thrusting out

Stretchnoun

a straightaway section of a racetrack

Stretchnoun

exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

Stretchnoun

extension to or beyond the ordinary limit;

Stretchnoun

an unbroken period of time during which you do something;

Stretchnoun

the capacity for being stretched

Stretchverb

occupy a large, elongated area;

Stretchverb

extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body;

Stretchverb

extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length;

Stretchverb

become longer by being stretched and pulled;

Stretchverb

make long or longer by pulling and stretching;

Stretchverb

lie down comfortably;

Stretchverb

pull in opposite directions;

Stretchverb

extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly;

Stretchverb

corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;

Stretchverb

increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance;

Stretchverb

extend one's body or limbs;

Stretchadjective

having an elongated seating area;

Stretchadjective

easily stretched;

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

A lot, plenty.

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

(cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

A man habituated to immoral conduct.

Rakenoun

A course; direction; stretch.

Rakenoun

A range, stray.

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

To search thoroughly.

Rakeverb

To spray with gunfire.

Rakeverb

To claw at; to scratch.

Rakeverb

To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)

Rakeverb

(intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Rakeverb

(intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.

Rakeverb

To guide; to direct

Rakeverb

(intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.

Rakeverb

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

To run or rove.

Rakenoun

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, - used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; - called also rake-vein.

Rakenoun

The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

Rakenoun

A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.

Rakeverb

To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; - often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

Rakeverb

To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

Rakeverb

To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

Rakeverb

To search through; to scour; to ransack.

Rakeverb

To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

Rakeverb

To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.

Rakeverb

To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

Rakeverb

To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Rakeverb

To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.

Rakeverb

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

Rakeverb

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

Rakenoun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Rakenoun

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

Rakenoun

a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

Rakeverb

move through with or as if with a rake;

Rakeverb

level or smooth with a rake;

Rakeverb

sweep the length of;

Rakeverb

examine hastily;

Rakeverb

gather with a rake;

Rakeverb

scrape gently;

Rakenoun

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.

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

an act of raking

Rakenoun

a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits

Rakenoun

the angle at which a thing slopes

Rakenoun

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

Rakenoun

a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together

Rakenoun

a herd of colts.

Rakeverb

draw together with a rake or similar implement

Rakeverb

make (ground) smooth with a rake

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

move across something with a long sweeping movement

Rakeverb

search or rummage through something

Rakeverb

set (something) at a sloping angle

Rakeverb

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

Rakeverb

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