Was heißt »Deh­nung« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv »Deh­nung« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • expansion
  • dilation
  • dilatation
  • pandiculation
  • stretch
  • stretching
  • lengthening
  • drawling

Synonyme

Aus­deh­nung:
extension
Aus­wei­tung:
broadening
enlargement
increase
Er­wei­te­rung:
add-on
enlargement
extension
Ver­län­ge­rung:
extension
prolongation
Wei­te­rung:
complication

Englische Beispielsätze

  • When her alarm clock sounded, Mary was already yawning and stretching.

  • Let's stop and stretch our legs for a bit.

  • The dough broke up when Tom tried to stretch it.

  • The blue sky seemed to stretch forever.

  • The little girls were afforded a stretch limousine for their insipid, saccharine songs.

  • Everyone in the car said they wanted to get out and stretch their legs.

  • My friend got to ride a stretch limousine to prom!

  • The pregnancy left her with stretch marks.

  • He tried with all his might to stretch the bow and shoot the arrow as far as possible.

  • Not only is the universe expanding, but its expansion is speeding up.

  • I was worried about stretching ourselves too thin financially.

  • Esperanto is a huge expansion of my horizon.

  • Tom decided to stretch the truth a little.

  • I need to stretch my legs.

  • Anyone who has never strung a spinet, clavichord, or harpsichord cannot imagine what kinds of problems can arise, from the choice of strings, to the actual stretching of the strings until they are tuned.

  • Mary did her stretching exercises.

  • In order to cross from one sentence to the other, Tom was stretching out his arm. Mary clung firmly onto it and jumped over the dot, avoiding to fall into the space.

  • On a long flight you should get up every once in a while to stretch your legs.

  • You should stretch properly before exercising.

  • The astronomers made the surprising discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Aus­spra­che:
pronunciation
Gym­nas­tik:
gymnastics
Trai­ning:
practice
training

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Zer­rung:
pulled muscle
pulled tendon
strain

Dehnung übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Dehnung. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: Dehnung. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 5341053, 5341054, 5357074, 5485360, 5891098, 3472490, 6031495, 3248559, 3118235, 6558273, 2653219, 2106831, 7347566, 1745638, 1468135, 8147249, 1077430, 950933, 745790 & 8713678. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR