The difference between Slap-back and Stretch
When used as nouns, slap-back means a faulty landing, whereby the skier rotates backwards around the knee-joint and hits the snow of the landing slope with their back and head, before rising off the snow back into position with their skis underneath them, whereas stretch means an act of stretching.
Slap-back is also adjective with the meaning: when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.
Stretch is also verb with the meaning: to lengthen by pulling.
check bellow for the other definitions of Slap-back and Stretch
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Slap-back as an adjective (music):
when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.
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Slap-back as a noun (aerial freestyle, _, skiing):
a faulty landing, whereby the skier rotates backwards around the knee-joint and hits the snow of the landing slope with their back and head, before rising off the snow back into position with their skis underneath them.
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Stretch as a verb (transitive):
To lengthen by pulling.
Examples:
"I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke."
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Stretch as a verb (intransitive):
To lengthen when pulled.
Examples:
"The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point."
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Stretch as a verb (transitive):
To pull tight.
Examples:
"First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum."
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Stretch as a verb (figuratively, transitive):
To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
Examples:
"I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days."
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Stretch as a verb (figuratively, transitive):
To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
Examples:
"To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably."
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Stretch as a verb (intransitive):
To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
Examples:
"The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble."
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Stretch as a verb (intransitive, transitive):
To extend one's limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
Examples:
"Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack."
"I always stretch my muscles before exercising."
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Stretch as a verb (intransitive):
To extend to a limit point
Examples:
"His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns."
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Stretch as a verb (transitive):
To increase.
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Stretch as a verb (obsolete, colloquial):
To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
Examples:
"a man apt to stretch in his report of facts"
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Stretch as a verb (nautical):
To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
Examples:
"The ship stretched to the eastward."
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Stretch as a noun:
An act of stretching.
Examples:
"I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang."
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Stretch as a noun:
The ability to lengthen when pulled.
Examples:
"That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch."
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Stretch as a noun:
A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
Examples:
"It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian."
"To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch."
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Stretch as a noun:
A segment of a journey or route.
Examples:
"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."
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Stretch as a noun:
A segment or length of material.
Examples:
"a stretch of cloth"
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Stretch as a noun (baseball):
A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
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Stretch as a noun (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.
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Stretch as a noun (informal):
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Stretch as a noun (horse racing):
The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
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Stretch as a noun (Ireland):
A length of time. Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days. The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs. A jail or prison term.
Examples:
"He did a 7-year stretch in jail."
"There is a grand stretch in the evenings."
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Stretch as a noun:
A stretch limousine.