From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
伸び or 伸び • (nobi)
- a stretch, the act of stretching
- あくびまじりの伸びをする
- akubi majiri no nobi o suru
- have a yawn and a stretch
- extension, elongation, the quality of stretching
- この餅の伸びがいい
- kono mochi no nobi ga ii
- this mochi has good stretch
- growth, development
- 輸出の伸びを抑える
- yushutsu no nobi o osaeru
- constrain the growth of exports
- ability or tendency to spread
- 伸びが良いファンデーション
- nobi ga yoi fandēshon
- foundation makeup that spreads easily
- (go) a move that extends one’s own line of stones (counters)
2008 April 14, Joryū Hon'inbō [Lady Grandmaster], “Kado ni sematte karamizeme [Seminar on dealing with corners]”, in Yomiuri Shimbun onrain[1]:
- １図、白１０の伸びはやむを得ません。
- Ichi zu, shiro jū no nobi wa yamu o emasen.
- In figure 1, White cannot avoid nobi (extending) with stone 10.
- 伸びる (nobiru, “to stretch, grow”, intransitive)
- 伸ばす (nobasu, “to grow, spread”, transitive)
- 伸べる (noberu, “to lengthen, unfold”, transitive)
