prostrana ravnina

1) (to make or become longer or wider especially by pulling or by being pulled: She stretched the piece of elastic to its fullest extent; His scarf was so long that it could stretch right across the room; This material stretches; The dog yawned and stretched (itself); He stretched (his arm/hand) up as far as he could, but still could not reach the shelf; Ask someone to pass you the jam instead of stretching across the table for it.) raztegniti, stegniti (se)

2) ((of land etc) to extend: The plain stretched ahead of them for miles.) raztezati se

1) (an act of stretching or state of being stretched: He got out of bed and had a good stretch.) pretegovanje

2) (a continuous extent, of eg a type of country, or of time: a pretty stretch of country; a stretch of bad road; a stretch of twenty years.) kos; obdobje

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- stretcher

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raztezanje, raztegovanje, stegnjenje, natezanje; (pre)napenjanje, napetost, napor; prekoračenje; razpetina, razpon; neprekinjen odsek poti, daljava; ploskev, prostrana ravnina, ravni del dirkališča; neprekinjeno časovno razdobje (doba), nepretrgan čas; slang kazen, bivanje v kaznilnici, čas kazni v kaznilnici, v zaporu; nautical daljava, prejadrana pri enem potegu (kretnji) (pri jadranju proti vetru); sprehod

at a stretch, at one stretch — brez prekinitve, naenkrat

on the stretch — napenjajoč vse sile; v veliki naglici, figuratively v veliki napetosti

a stretch of 5 years — razdobje petih let

a stretch of the imagination — prenapeta, prebujna domišljija

the stretch of a bird's wings — razpetina ptičjih kril

a fine stretch of country — lep košček zemlje, lepe pokrajine

to be on the stretch — biti napet, v napetosti

it is a good stretch from the village to the town — je lep, precejšen kos poti od vasi do mesta

to do a stretch British English odslužiti, izdržati kazen (enega leta)

to give a stretch — natezati se, pretegniti se

he gave a stretch and got up — pretegnil se je in vstal

to keep one's attention on the stretch — biti v napeti pozornosti

it takes a stretch of imagination to believe that — treba je precéj napeti svojo domišljijo, da to verjameš

to work 8 hours at (on) a stretch — delati nepretrgano 8 ur;

raztegljiv

stretch hosiery — raztegljive nogavice

raztegniti, raztezati, razvleči, (raz)širiti; iztegniti (roko itd.) (često out); pretegniti (noge itd., o.s. se); nategniti (vrv itd.), peti, razpeti (platno itd.); z natezanjem izgladiti; figuratively nategovati, silo delati, iti predaleč (v čem), prenapenjati, pretiravati, po svoje krojiti (pravico, zakon); commerce prekoračiti (kredit); slang obesiti, usmrtiti;

raztezati se, (raz)širiti se, segati; nategniti se; raztegniti se (rokavice), dati se raztegniti; potovati (to do); figuratively pretiravati, lagati; colloquially viseti, biti obešen

stretched — iztegnjen, po dolgem

stretched spring — napeta vzmet

to stretch one's arms — iztegniti, pretegniti si roke

to stretch the credit — prekoračiti kredit

to stretch s.o. on the ground — z udarcem zrušiti koga na tla

to stretch one's legs — stegniti noge

to stretch for miles — milje daleč se raztezati (segati)

to stretch a pair of trousers — dati hlače na natezalnik

to stretch a point figuratively iti predaleč, pretiravati (v čem)

I will stretch a point in your favour — potrudil se bom, da vam bom šel na roko

to stretch one's principles — delati silo svojim načelom

to stretch s.o. on the rack history razpeti koga za mučenje (na natezalnici)

to stretch a rope — nategniti vrv

the rope has stretched — vrv se je nategnila

to stretch the truth — pretiravati, lagati

to stretch the wings — razpeti krila

to stretch away out of sight — razprostirati se, kakor daleč sega oko

1) (great in extent, especially from side to side: wide streets; Her eyes were wide with surprise.) širok

2) (being a certain distance from one side to the other: This material is three metres wide; How wide is it?) širok

3) (great or large: He won by a wide margin.) širok

4) (covering a large and varied range of subjects etc: a wide experience of teaching.) bogat

- widely

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adjective ( widely adverb)

širok, prostran; obsežen; dalekosežen; velik, znaten, bogat (izkušnje, znanje itd.); liberalen, ki je brez predsodkov, širokogruden; splošen, obči; raztezajoč se v določenih mejah; široko odprt; ki presega meje, čezmeren; daleč oddaljen; British English slang bister, prebrisan

three feet wide — tri čevlje širok

a wide domain — obsežno, obširno področje

a wide margin — širok rob

wide plain — prostrana ravnina

wide prices — različne cene (ponudbe in povpraševanja)

wide reading — velika načitanost

wide roads — široke ceste

the wide world — širni svet

to give a wide margin — dati široko polje, dati prost prostor

to stare with wide eyes — strmeti s široko odprtimi

to take wide views — biti velikodušen, velikopotezen

his answer was quite wide of the mark — njegov odgovor ni prav nič spadal k stvari

by the widest computation — kar najbolj široko računano

adverb široko, širom, prostrano; oddaljeno, daleč od; v polni meri

wide apart — daleč narazen

wide open — na stežaj odprt

far and wide — daleč naokoli; na dolgo in na široko

the blow went wide — udarec je šel mimo

to go wide — zgrešiti cilj

the ball fell wide of the target — žoga je padla daleč od cilja

to open one's mouth wide — (na) široko odpreti usta (zazijati)

to have one's eyes wide open — imeti široko odprte oči, biti buden (pazijiv, oprezen)

to open one's mouth too wide figuratively biti preveč pohlepen (lakomen, častihlepen)

an answer wide of the mark — zelo zmoten odgovor

poetically širina, prostranost; skrajnost; sport nedosegljiva žoga

to the wide — do skrajnosti, popolnoma

broke to the wide colloquially čisto "suh" (brez denarja)

done to the wide — popolnoma izčrpan