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Meaning of நீட்சி in English

  • The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
  • That which lengthens out; continuation.
  • Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
  • The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
  • Want of extension; unextended state.
  • To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
  • To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
  • To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
  • To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
  • Tedious continuance or delay.
  • A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
  • The act or process of making a plot on paper.
  • A plot on paper.
  • To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
  • To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
  • To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
  • To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
  • To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
  • To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
  • 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.
  • To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
  • To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
  • To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
  • To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
  • Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
  • A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
  • The extent to which anything may be stretched.
  • The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
  • Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
  • of Stretch
  • a. & n. from Stretch, v.

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