What's the difference between outgrow and stretch?

Outgrow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
  • (v. t.) To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further management of the congenital cases was based on the experience that children outgrow this disorder; periodic dilatation may augment the natural process.
  • (2) Our findings lead us to support a conservative attitude regarding surgery, at least if only mild symptoms are present, If the patients can be satisfactorily treated medically, they seem to outgrow their symptoms in early childhood.
  • (3) Vegetative cells outgrowing from glycerol-induced myxospores were regularly pleomorphic, a condition that persisted through the first cell division.
  • (4) Small tumor fragments were transferred into culture flasks and cultured until a confluent monolayer was formed by the outgrowing cells.
  • (5) Chinese hamster V79 multicell spheroids growing in tissue culture exhibit many of the same properties as solid tumors outgrowing their blood supply, including the spontaneous development of both noncycling and hypoxic cell populations expected to be resistant to many chemotherapeutic agents.
  • (6) In the long-term experiments, with the lower TNF doses, in situ evidence of regrowth was observed (outgrowing zones in the nodules) on about the 40th day of treatment, and nodule recovery was confirmed by the resumption of DNA synthesis measured on the 50th day of treatment.
  • (7) Whereas the intramembranous particle number in glial pseudopodia is only slightly lower than in their perikaryal plasmalemma, the number of particles in outgrowing axons increases about eightfold from the periphery towards the perikaryon.
  • (8) The sequence encoding the most efficient trans-activation-responsive region did not outgrow others.
  • (9) More efficient glucose uptake enabled a mutant to outgrow its parent and caused a decrease in the steady-state glucose concentration in the chemostat.
  • (10) The outgrowing serotonergic fibers from the mesencephalic raphe graft showed a hyperinnervation pattern in the cerebellar cortex adjacent to the graft.
  • (11) Parents were the first to suspect the hearing loss in 48 cases but more often than not were told that the child would outgrow it or was too young to test.
  • (12) These findings suggest that the plasmalemma of the outgrowing nerve, and especially of the growth cone, is immature and that maturation is accompanied by the insertion of intramembranous particles.
  • (13) 146:430-432, 1981) we isolated three genes involved in Bacillus subtilis spore outgrowth by screening the library by hybridization with labeled RNA from outgrowing spores in the presence of an excess of unlabeled vegetative RNA.
  • (14) Spores of the mutant synthesized no DNA when germinated at high temperature, although an outgrowing cell appeared.
  • (15) Only the inner surface of the vitelline membrane has this growth-promoting potential, which markedly and progressively declines during incubation in ovo because of systemic factors rather than because of a direct influence by the outgrowing yolk sac-serosal membrane.
  • (16) Fluorescence immunohistochemistry revealed the presence of the integrin beta 1-chain on the outgrowing neurites.
  • (17) Major contributors to the outgrowing axon's environment are the lumbosacral (LS) somites which give rise to limb muscle cells and the LS somatopleural mesoderm which gives rise to limb connective tissues.
  • (18) Most children do outgrow their respiratory symptoms but not the susceptibility of their airways to allergens.
  • (19) In the presence of inhibitors affecting membrane potential, vegetative cells were as sensitive to chloroquine as outgrowing spores.
  • (20) These results indicate that serotonergic and dopaminergic neurons located within the mesencephalic raphe graft clearly differed from each other in their ability to extend their processes into the host cerebellum, which provides further evidence for the existence of specific interactions between outgrowing serotonergic fibers and their terminal fields (targets).

Stretch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
  • (v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
  • (v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
  • (v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
  • (v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
  • (v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
  • (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
  • (v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
  • (v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
  • (n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
  • (n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
  • (n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
  • (n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
  • (n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
  • (2) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
  • (3) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
  • (4) Endothelial release of the arachidonate derivative PGI2 may be increased in response to cyclic lung stretching.
  • (5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
  • (6) The maximum force level reached during the stretch was affected very little.
  • (7) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
  • (8) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
  • (9) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
  • (10) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
  • (11) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
  • (12) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
  • (13) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
  • (14) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
  • (15) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
  • (16) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
  • (17) The presence of a form of stretch reflex, previously described in the arm by other authors, has been confirmed in the gastrocnemius muscle of the human leg.
  • (18) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
  • (19) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
  • (20) This figure suggests that, unless there are substantial stretches of free DNA, the polyoma nucleoprotein complex contains about 26 nucleosomes.