Testing vs Stretched - What's the difference?
testing | stretched |
difficult, tough
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=June 4
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 2 - 2 Switzerland
, work=BBC
The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
* 2011 , Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke
(stretch)
(label) To lengthen by pulling.
(label) To lengthen when pulled.
* Boyle
(label) To pull tight.
To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
(label) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
* , chapter=1
, title= To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
(label) To extend to a limit point
(label) To increase.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport
, title= To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
(label) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
An act of stretching.
The ability to lengthen when pulled.
A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
A segment of a journey or route.
(label) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
(label) 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.
A length of time.
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(label) A term of address for a tall person
* 2007 , Michael Farrell, Running with Buffalo
*:“Hey, Stretch ,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.
As verbs the difference between testing and stretched
is that testing is while stretched is (stretch).As an adjective testing
is difficult, tough.As a noun testing
is the act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.testing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.
Anagrams
*stretched
English
Verb
(head)stretch
English
Verb
- The inner membrane because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Norwich 3-3 Blackburn, passage=Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.}}
- a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
- The ship stretched to the eastward.
Noun
(es)- I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
- To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
- That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
- It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
- It was an easy trip except for the last stretch , which took forever.
- He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
- After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever
