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In basketball, a stretch four (sometimes called a stretch big) is a player at the power forward position that can shoot further from the basket than a conventional power forward. "Stretch" describes the effect that such a player has on the opposition's defense, and the power forward position is also known as the "four"; hence "stretch four".
Randy Walker (August 21, 1968 – November 30, 1995), better known by his stage name Stretch, was an American rapper and record producer, working in Live Squad. In the early 1990s, he joined 2Pac 's rap group Thug Life .
The pair is commonly described as people from two countries, the "Long-legged Country", and the "Long-armed Country". As the names suggest, the inhabitants of these two countries possess unusually lengthy arms and legs.
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Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle is deliberately elongated to its fullest length.. Stretching may also refer to: . Canvas stretching, the lengthening of a canvas by pulling
Stretch, a purple toy octopus in the film Toy Story 3 (see List of Toy Story characters) Stretch, a member of the DC Comics superteam Hero Hotline; Stretch Cunningham, a recurring character in the TV series All in the Family; Stretch Emerson, a character created by Australian western writer Leonard Frank Meares
Stretch rose from the ashes of this debacle, and soon had a No. 16 hit single in November 1975 with "Why Did You Do It?", [4] the lyric of which was a direct attack on Mick Fleetwood for his failure to join the band on the ill-fated U.S. tour. [5] In the eventual video for the record, the bass player was Steve Emery who wore a traditional ...
Studies have shed light on the function, in stretching, of a large protein within the myofibrils of skeletal muscles named titin. [12] A study performed by Magid and Law demonstrated that the origin of passive muscle tension (which occurs during stretching) is actually within the myofibrils, not extracellularly as had previously been supposed. [13]