Enlargement vs Stretching - What's the difference?
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The act of making something larger.
(figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
:* Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
The act by which something is stretched.
* 1859 , Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry
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.
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Enlargement is a related term of stretching.
As nouns the difference between enlargement and stretching
is that enlargement is the act of making something larger while stretching is the act by which something is stretched.As a verb stretching is
.enlargement
English
Noun
(en noun)- Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement .
- ‘’’1874 Thomas Hardy, ‘’Far From the Madding Crowd’’, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p337:
stretching
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Noun
(wikipedia stretching) (en noun)- [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings , before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
