noun
Meaning 1
Someone or something that stretches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stretcher
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/
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Canada, General-American: strĕchʹər
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Canada, General-American: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈstɹet͡ʃə/
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rhymes with -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: litter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: litter, conveyance, vehicle, device
noun
Meaning 3
A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
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noun
Meaning 4
A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
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noun
Meaning 5
A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
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noun
Meaning 6
A piece of timber used in building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
Meaning 7
A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
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Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 8
A board against which a rower places his feet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 9
One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
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noun
Meaning 10
A penis, especially a long penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 11
To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 12
a stone that forms the top of wall or building
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stone
noun
Meaning 13
a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: litter
Narrower terms: gurney
noun
Meaning 14
a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mechanical device
noun
Meaning 15
a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: framework
History
Etymology
From stretch + -er.
Across languages
Translations
131 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: barelë — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Arabic: نَقَّالَة (naqqāla) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Arabic: مِحَفَّة (miḥaffa) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Armenian: պատգարակ (patgarak) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Azerbaijani: xərək — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Belarusian: насі́лкі (nasílki) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Bulgarian: носи́лка (nosílka) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Burmese: ထမ်းစင် (htam:cang) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Catalan: llitera — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Catalan: civera — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Catalan: baiard — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Chinese Mandarin: 擔架床 /担架床 (dānjiàchuáng) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Chinese Mandarin: 擔架 /担架 (dānjià) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Czech: nosítka — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Danish: båre — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Dutch: baar — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Dutch: draagbaar — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Dutch: brancard — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Estonian: kanderaam — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Finnish: paarit — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- French: civière — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- French: brancard — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Galician: padiola — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Galician: andas — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Galician: angarellas — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Galician: cozo — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Galician: vallarte — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Georgian: საკაცე (saḳace) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- German: Trage — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- German: Tragbahre — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- German: Bahre — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Greek: φορείο (foreío) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Hebrew: אַלּוּנְקָה (alunka) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Hindi: स्ट्रेचर (sṭrecar) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Hungarian: hordágy — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Ido: kamilo — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Indonesian: brankar — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Ingrian: nosilkat — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Irish: sínteán — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Italian: barella — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Japanese: ストレッチャー (sutoretchā) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Japanese: 担架 (tanka) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Kazakh: зембіл (zembıl) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Khmer: គ្រែស្នែង (krɛɛ snaeng) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Khmer: ប្រង់កា (prɑngkaa) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Korean: 들것 (deulgeot) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Korean: 담가 (damga) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Kyrgyz: замбил (zambil) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Kyrgyz: носилка (nosilka) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Latin: lectica — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Latin: grabātus (Vulgate) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Latvian: nestuves — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Lithuanian: neštuvai — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Luxembourgish: Drobier — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Luxembourgish: Brëtsch — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Macedonian: но́сила (nósila) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Macedonian: но́силка (nósilka) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Malay: pengusung — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Māori: kauamo — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Māori: kauhoa — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Māori: amo — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Norman: chiviéthe à bras — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Norwegian Bokmål: båre — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Old Norse: barar — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Persian: برانکارد (berânkârd) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Polish: nosze — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Portuguese: maca — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Romanian: targă — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Russian: носи́лки (nosílki) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Samoan: fata — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Serbo-Croatian: но̀сила — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Serbo-Croatian: nòsila — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Slovak: nosidlá — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Slovene: nosila — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Spanish: camilla — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Spanish: parihuela — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Spanish: angarilla — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Swedish: bår — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Tajik: занбар (zanbar) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Tajik: сароҷа (saroja) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Thai: แคร่ (krɛ̂ɛ) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Thai: คานหาม (kaan-hǎam) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Thai: เปล (bplee) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Tongan: fata — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Turkish: sedye — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Turkish: teskere — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Ottoman Turkish: سدیه (sedye) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Ottoman Turkish: تسكره (teskere) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Turkmen: nosilka — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Ukrainian: носи́лки (nosýlky) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Ukrainian: но́ші (nóši) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Urdu: اسٹریچر (isṭrecar) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Uyghur: زەمبىل (zembil) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Uyghur: نوسىلكا (nosilka) — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Uzbek: zambil — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Uzbek: nosilka — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Vietnamese: cáng — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Vietnamese: băng ca — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Welsh: cludwely — simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney
- Bulgarian: рамка (ramka) — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Dutch: kader — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Dutch: frame — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Finnish: kehys — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- French: châssis — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- German: Bahre — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- German: Tragbahre — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Polish: blejtram — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Polish: krosna malarskie — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Russian: подра́мник (podrámnik) — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Spanish: bastidor — frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
- Finnish: lesti — device to stretch shoes or gloves
- Russian: натяжно́е устро́йство (natjažnóje ustrójstvo) — device to stretch shoes or gloves
- Spanish: ensanchador — device to stretch shoes or gloves
- Spanish: horma — device to stretch shoes or gloves
- Czech: běhoun — brick laid with the longest side exposed
- Danish: løber — brick laid with the longest side exposed
- Finnish: juoksutiili — brick laid with the longest side exposed
- French: panneresse — brick laid with the longest side exposed
- Swedish: löpsten — brick laid with the longest side exposed
- Bulgarian: разпънка (razpǎnka) — piece of timber
- Czech: rozpěra — piece of timber
- Finnish: hirsi — piece of timber
- Spanish: viga — piece of timber
- Spanish: polín — piece of timber
- Finnish: jalkatuki — nautical: board against which a rower places his feet
- Bulgarian: нося на носилка (nosja na nosilka) — to carry on a stretcher
- Finnish: kantaa paareilla — to carry on a stretcher
- French: brancarder — to carry on a stretcher
- Māori: matatā — to carry on a stretcher
- Spanish: llevar en camilla — to carry on a stretcher
- Spanish: trasladar en camilla — to carry on a stretcher
Real reading context