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Definition: Stretcher |
StretcherNoun1. A wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting. 2. A mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it. 3. A litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles. 4. A stone that forms the top of wall or building. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stretcher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A brick or stone laid with its length parallel to the length of the wall. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Stretcher An exaggeration; a statement stretched out beyond the strict truth. Also a frame on which the sick or wounded are carried; a frame on which painters' canvas is stretched; etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Appliance consisting of an oblong frame over which is stretched a canvas or other material, used for carrying an injured or disabled person; Essential equipment in first aid; Stretchers come in all forms and makes, and can in case of necessity be improvised from any material which comes to hand. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A bar used for roof support on a roadway, which is either wedged against or pocketed into the sides of the roadway and not supported by legs or struts b. A bar fixed across a narrow working place or tunnel to support a rock drill c. A main backing deal or longitudinal bar in contact with three or moresupport bars or girders. (references) |
Occupations | Examines finished cloth for defects, such as grease spots, tears, and variations in color, finish, and dimensions: Measures width of cloth with ruler to detect variations from customer and plant standards. Turns through cloth folds or pulls cloth over inspection frame and feels and scans cloth to detect defects and variations in color and finish. Cuts defects from cloth, using scissors, or marks defects with chalk, thread, or label to indicate yardage allowance for defects. Records yardage for each cut of cloth examined. Routes cloth that does not conform to customer and plant specifications to CLOTH GRADER (textile). May tear sample strip from each cut of cloth. May count folds to determine yardage in each cut of cloth. May be designated according to specialization as Cloth-Colors Examiner (textile); Cloth-Cutting Inspector (textile). (references) |
| Stretches rings to specified size and shape, using stretching device: Slides ring onto hollow arbor (female) having slits running down its length that permit it to contract or expand. Turns wheel to force tapered male arbor into hollow arbor to expand and stretch ring. Repeats operation until ring is stretched and formed as specified. (references) | |
| Tends machine that stretches and softens fur pelts that are too hard or rumpled to pass through fur-shaving machine: Depresses pedal to separate power-driven rollers of machine and inserts skin between rollers. Releases pedal and holds skin as corrugated rollers stretch skin, softening it for further processing into hatter's fur. (references) | |
| Positions (stretches) textile articles, such as towels, bath cloths, blankets, sheets, and pillowcases at designated intervals on gummed-top table to prepare them for screen printing. Smooths wrinkles from articles and presses articles to table top with hands to prevent slipping. May hang printed articles on line to dry. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StretcherSynonyms: capstone (n), copestone (n), coping stone (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Support | Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion. |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stretcher |
| English words defined with "stretcher": Cross bond ♦ gurney ♦ litter-bearer ♦ refectory table ♦ stretcher-bearer, Stretching course. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stretcher": AMBULANCE ATTENDANT, AMBULANCE DRIVER, Aussenhaut ♦ carder, blankets, curtain drier, curtain framer, curtain stretcher ♦ English cross bond ♦ MORGUE ATTENDANT ♦ ORIENTAL-RUG REPAIRER ♦ PRINTING SCREEN ASSEMBLER ♦ Saint Andrew's cross bond, SCREEN MAKER, screen stretcher, Stokes stretcher, stretcher operator, STRETCHER-DRIER OPERATOR, STRETCHER-LEVELER OPERATOR, STRETCHER-LEVELER-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ training gallery. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, it's not my fault that she didn't fit in the stretcher! (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates) It's a penis stretcher. Do you want to try it (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel; Pat Proft) | |
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 | Shown is a woman on a gurney just outside the surgery recovery room. A physician and a nurse are on either side of the stretcher, either talking with her or pushing the gurney. The photograph was taken at lower than eye level. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | U.S. Army Air Force Hospital, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona. : Interior view of nurses and stretcher. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Air Force Hospital, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA. : Ambulance losfing dock with patient on stretcher. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Military: Field Medical Services : View showing classification of a stretcher case in field hospital. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Ambulances- Horsedrawn : View of Stretcher with wounded man, from Battle of Slim Buttes. (War Against the Sioux Indians - 1876). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | An injured man in a stretcher on board USS Minneapolis (CA-36), 1 December 1942, the day after the ship was damaged by torpedoes in the Battle of Tassafaronga. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Being christened by Mrs. L. J. Stretcher during launching ceremonies on 2 October 1943. The ship was built by the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington. Credit: NAVY. |  | A policeman and two other men, possibly undertakers, with the covered casket of Legs Diamond on a stretcher next to a hearse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Troops in Australia. Soldiers, wounded in the fighting in New Guniea, are carried to a base in the versatile American jeep which has been readily converted into an ambulance for efficient handling of stretcher cases. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A darktown race--facing the flag--match between "his lowness" and "The stretcher" for de gate money. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | Replacement of existing unserviceable stretcher lift at National Institute of Child Health (NICH), Karachi. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stretcher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stretcher" is used about 186 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 186 | 22,556 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stretcher": stretcher bearer ♦ stretcher brick ♦ stretcher party ♦ stretcher strains: 2. killing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stretcher": stretcher-bearer, stretcher-bearers, stretcher-bed, stretcher-beds, stretcher-case, stretcher-like. | |
Ending with "stretcher": trouser-stretcher. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stretcher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | draagbaar (litter, strecher), berrie. (various references) | |
Albanian | tezgë (bookstall, go cart, hand-barrow, litter, stall, stand), tërthore (bias, brace, crossbar, crosspiece, crossrail, strut, tie beam, transom, transversal, yoke), kornizë (case, casing, cornice, frame, Mount, mounting, picture frame, rack, sash), barelë (litter, trolley), aparat për zgjatjen. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقالة (hand-barrow, litter, shaft), نطاق (ambit, area, belt, compass, extension, field, framework, range, sash, way, width, zone), الموسعة أداة لتوسيع الحذاء, الموسعة, المديدة العارضة الممتدة, الطوبة المجانبة, إطار (cadre, case, casement, casing, frame, framework, framing, rim, scope, setting, surroundings), أسلاك شمسية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уред за разширяване, разтегачка, опора за краката, носилка (doolie, litter), напречна греда (arm, binder, bolster, crossbar, crossbeam, jig, joist, rail, sill, summer-tree, tie beam, transom), надлъжно поставена тухла, надлъжно поставен камък, преувеличение (exaggeration, hyperbole, superlative), послъгване, походно легло (camp bed, cot, folding bed, folding cot, rollaway), подрамник. (various references) | |
Chinese | 担架. (various references) | |
Czech | nosítka (litter), natahovaè. (various references) | |
Danish | sygebaare (litter), strammer (straightener device, strainer, tightening screw, twine tensioner, twisting stick), tvaerdrager (bodywork crossbar, bodywork member, cross bar, cross beam, cross girder, cross member, cross truss, cross-bar, cross-beam, cross-bearer, cross-member, cross-tie, long sleeper, strut, transom), transportbaare, trådstrammer (fence stretcher, wire strainer, wire stretcher, wire tightener), koerebaare, gribekaede, baare, båre (litter, strecher). (various references) | |
Dutch | draagbaar (litter, portable, strecher), brancard (litter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | homportilo, brankardo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | børa (litter, strecher). (various references) | |
Finnish | paarit (bier, litter). (various references) | |
French | brancard, tendeur (straightener device, strainer, twisting stick, wire strainer), panneresse (stretcher brick), civière. (various references) | |
Frisian | brankaar. (various references) | |
German | Tragbahre (litter), Bahre (bier, litter, strecher), Trage (hand barrow, litter, pannier), spanner (peeping tom, press, prowler, racket press). (various references) | |
Greek | φορείο (litter, sedan, sedan chair). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממתח (exerciser, temple, tightener), פתין (beam), אלו ק". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tágító. (various references) | |
Italian | barella (Barrow, litter), lettiga (litter, trolley). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 釣り台 (fishing platform), 担架 (litter), 担架 (litter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"か (31-syllable Japanese poem, carbonization, caustic words, litter, red flower, tanka, unit cost, unit price), つり い (fishing platform). (various references) | |
Korean | "것. (various references) | |
Manx | sheeyntane, sheeyneyder (expander, lengthener, prolonger, rack, reacher), cleeah (criss-cross, darn, fret, grate, grating, grid, lattice, school of fish, staff, stave, wicker), carbyd (bier, bus, cabin, coach, hearse, vehicle), breadagh (swingle tree). (various references) | |
Papiamen | brankar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etcherstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | padiola (barrow, doolie, hand-barrow, litter), maca (barrow, doolie, hammock, hand-barrow), esticador (adjuster, tightener). (various references) | |
Romanian | strângãtor (accumulative, acquisitive, collector, economical, gatherer, parsimonious, provident, sparing), targã (Barrow, hand-barrow, litter), minciunã gogonatã (bouncer, Corker, howler, whopper, whopping lie), extensor (developer, extensor), brancardã. (various references) | |
Russian | расширитель;носилки, носилки (doolie, hand-barrow, litter, palankeen, palanquin, sedan chair), ложок, подрамник. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nosila (bier, carry cot, hand-barrow, litter). (various references) | |
Spanish | camilla (hammock chair, hand-barrow, litter, sofa, strecher). (various references) | |
Swedish | sjukbår, bår (Barrow, bier, feretory, litter). (various references) | |
Turkish | sedye (litter, sedan, sedan chair, wheeled bed), tuval (canvas), teskere, oturak (potty, seat, stool), kasnak (cylinder, embroidery frame, hoop, pulley, rim, taboret, tabouret, tambour), gergi (rack, spreader, stay, tenter), ayakkabı kalıbı (last, shoetree). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | носилки (go cart, hand-barrow), пристосування для розтягування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người kéo vật để nong, người căng, lời nói dối (falsehood, falsity, gag). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 7, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai proselqwn hyato thV sorou oi de bastazonteV esthsan kai eipen neaniske soi legw egerqhti |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et accessit et tetigit loculum hii autem qui portabant steterunt et ait adulescens tibi dico surge |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa genealæhte he and þa cyste æþran. þa ætstodon þa þe hyne bæron; þa cwæþ se hælend. eala geonga þe ic secge aris; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he cam nyy, and touchide the beere; and thei that baren stoden. And he seide, Yonge man, Y seie to thee, rise vp. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he went and touched the coffyn and they yt bare him stode still. And he sayde: Yonge man I saye vnto the aryse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he came and touched the bier: And they that bore him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, Arise. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he came near, and put his hand on the stretcher where the dead man was: and those who were moving it came to a stop. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Get up. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 7, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya miduol ug iyang gikuptan ang lungon, ug ang mga nanagyayong niini mihunong. Ug siya miingon, "Dong, ingnon ko ikaw, bangon." |
| Croatian | Pristupi zatim, dotaèe se nosila; nosioci stadoše, a on reèe: "Mladiæu, kažem ti, ustani!" |
| Danish | Og han trådte til og rørte ved Båren; men de, som bare, stode stille, og han sagde: "du unge Mand, jeg siger dig, stå op!" |
| Finnish | Ja hän meni ja kosketti paareja; niin kantajat seisahtuivat. Ja hän sanoi: "Nuorukainen, minä sanon sinulle: nouse." |
| French | Il s`approcha, et toucha le cercueil. Ceux qui le portaient s`arrêtèrent. Il dit: Jeune homme, je te le dis, lève-toi! |
| German | Und er trat hinzu und rührte den Sarg an; und die Träger standen. Und er sprach: Jüngling, ich sage dir, stehe auf! |
| Haitian Creole | Apre sa li pwoche, li manyen sèkèy la. Moun ki t'ap pote l' yo ret kanpe. Li di: Jennonm, se mwen menm k'ap pale avè ou. Leve. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian Yesus mendekati usungan jenazah itu dan menjamahnya. Maka pengusung-pengusung berhenti. Yesus berkata, "Hai pemuda, Aku menyuruh engkau bangun!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dihampiri-Nya dan dijamah-Nya usungan itu, lalu orang yang mengusung itu pun berdirilah. Maka kata Yesus, "Hai orang muda! Aku berkata kepadamu: Bangkitlah!" |
| Maori | Na ka whakatata ia, ka pa ki te kauhoa: a tu tonu nga kaikauhoa. Na ko tana meatanga, E tama, ko taku kupu tenei ki a koe, E ara. |
| Norwegian | Og han trådte til og rørte ved båren, og de som bar den, stod stille, og han sa: Du unge mann! jeg sier dig: Stå op! |
| Portuguese | Então, chegando-se, tocou no esquife e, quando pararam os que o levavam, disse: Moço, a ti te digo: Levanta-te. |
| Rumanian | Apoi S`a apropiat, wi S`a atins de raclq. Ceice o duceau, s`au oprit. El a zis: ,,Tinerelule, scoalq-te, kyi spun!`` |
| Shuar | Nuinkia Jesus jakaa enkerman tarunt antinmiayi; nuna Juíniasha wajasarmiayi. Nuinkia Jesus jakaan chicharuk "Umpa nantaktia, Tájame" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Kisha akaenda, akaligusa lile jeneza, na wale waliokuwa wanalichukua wakasimama. Halafu akasema, "Kijana! Nakuamuru, amka!" |
| Swedish | Och han gick fram och rörde vid båren, och de som buro stannade. Och han sade: "Unge man, jag säger dig: Stå upp." |
| Uma | Hilou-imi mpoganga pokowa', mentoda' -ramo to mokowa'. Na'uli' Yesus: "Kabilasa! Kuhubui-ko memata!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stretcher": stretchers. (additional references) | |
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"Stretcher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schechter, stretchen, stretchter, Strettel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stretcher" (pronounced stre"kher) |
| 3 | -e" kh er | Fletcher, lecher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: etchers, retches, stretch, tercets, terrets, tethers. | |
-3 letters: certes, cheers, cherts, creesh, erects, etcher, etches, ethers, resect, rester, retest, secret, setter, street, terces, tercet, terret, terser, tester, tether, theres, threes. | |
-4 letters: ceres, cetes, cheer, chert, chest, crest, eches, erect, ester, ether, heres, reest, reset, retch, scree, serer, sheer, sheet, steer, stere, teeth, terce, terse. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: chatterers, stretchers, stretchier. | |
+2 letters: orchestrate, overstretch, tetrarchies. | |
+3 letters: erythrocytes, orchestrated, orchestrater, orchestrates, orthocenters. | |
+4 letters: architectures, orchestraters, overstretched, overstretches, oystercatcher, reorchestrate, retrenchments, weathercaster. | |
+5 letters: counterthreats, overstretching, oystercatchers, petrochemistry, photoreceptors, reorchestrated, reorchestrates, tetrachlorides, weathercasters. | |
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