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noun
1.
Medicine/Medical.
a.
a kind of litter, often of canvas stretched on a frame, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead.
b.
a similar litter on wheels, adapted for use in ambulances and hospitals.
2.
a person or thing that stretches.
3.
any of various instruments for extending, widening, distending, etc.
4.
a bar, beam, or fabricated material, serving as a tie or brace.
5.
EXPANDMasonry. a brick or stone laid in a wall so that its longer edge is exposed or parallel to the surface. Compare header (def. 5a).
6.
a simple wooden framework on which the canvas for an oil painting is stretched.
7.
Furniture.
a.
a framework connecting and bracing the legs of a piece of furniture.
b.
one member of this framework.
8.
a crosspiece that is set athwart and near the bottom in a small boat, and against which the feet of a rower are braced.
9.
COLLAPSEone of the thin, sliding rods connecting the canopy and handle of an umbrella.
verb (used with object)
10.
to stretch (canvas for a painting) on a stretcher.
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Stretcher
is always a great word to know.
So is umbilicus. Does it mean:
| the depression in the center of the surface of the abdomen indicating the point of attachment of the umbilical cord to the embryo; navel. |
| the outer, nonvascular, nonsensitive layer of the skin, covering the true skin or corium. |
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verb (used with object)
1.
to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
2.
to hold out, reach forth, or extend (one's arm, head, etc.).
3.
to extend, spread, or place (something) so as to reach from one point or place to another: to stretch a rope across a road.
4.
to draw tight or taut: to stretch the strings of a violin.
5.
EXPANDto lengthen, widen, distend, or enlarge by tension: to stretch a rubber band.
6.
to draw out, extend, or enlarge unduly: The jacket was stretched at the elbows.
7.
to extend, force, or make serve beyond the normal or proper limits; strain: to stretch the imagination; to stretch the facts; to stretch food to feed extra guests; to stretch money to keep within a budget.
8.
to extend or strain (oneself) to the utmost, as by intense exertion; tax.
9.
to increase the quantity of (a beverage, food, paint, etc.) by dilution or admixing: They caught the bartender stretching the gin with water.
10.
COLLAPSERadio and Television. to prolong or slow down (action or pace) in order not to end too early: to stretch a show; to stretch the action two minutes.
verb (used without object)
11.
to recline at full length (usually followed by out): to stretch out on a couch.
12.
to extend the hand or to reach, as for something.
13.
to extend over a distance or area or in a particular direction: The forest stretches for miles.
14.
to extend in time: His memory stretches back to his early childhood.
15.
EXPANDto stretch oneself by extending the limbs and lengthening the muscles to the utmost: to stretch and yawn.
16.
to become stretched, or admit of being stretched, to greater length, width, etc., as any elastic or ductile material.
17.
COLLAPSERadio and Television. to reduce the pace or slow down the action of a radio or television program.
noun
18.
an act or instance of stretching.
19.
the state of being stretched.
20.
a continuous length, distance, tract, or expanse: a stretch of meadow.
21.
22.
EXPANDBaseball. a short windup, usually used to keep base runners from taking too long a lead, in which the pitcher starts the pitching motion with hands together at the waist, raises them to or above the head, brings them back to the waist, and, after a momentary pause, delivers the ball.
23.
an extent in time; duration: for a stretch of ten years.
24.
elasticity or capacity for extension.
25.
Slang. a term of imprisonment: He's doing a stretch in the pen.
26.
the act or fact of stretching or extending something beyond reasonable or proper limits: You wouldn't call her a genius by any stretch of the imagination. It's quite a stretch for me to believe his story.
27.
COLLAPSE(initial capital letter) a nickname for a tall, lanky person.
adjective
28.
made of synthetic or composite yarn having a sufficiently low denier or having been subjected to any of several special mechanical treatments to permit increased elasticity: stretch girdle; stretch pants.
29.
(of yarn) modified or twisted so as to afford high elasticity.
30.
Also, stretched. of or pertaining to a conveyance, as a limousine or airliner, whose seating area is expanded to carry more passengers or afford greater legroom and to allow space for other comforts and amenities.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English strecchen (v.), Old English streccan; cognate with Dutch strekken, German strecken; akin to Old English stræc firm, hard, Middle Dutch strac stiff. See stare, stark
before 900; Middle English strecchen (v.), Old English streccan; cognate with Dutch strekken, German strecken; akin to Old English stræc firm, hard, Middle Dutch strac stiff. See stare, stark
Related forms
stretch·a·ble, adjective
stretch·a·bil·i·ty, noun
non·stretch·a·ble, adjective
pre·stretch, verb (used with object), noun
un·stretch·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDAntonyms
5, 16. shorten, shrink.
5, 16. shorten, shrink.
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| stretcher (ˈstrɛtʃə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a device for transporting the ill, wounded, or dead, consisting of a frame covered by canvas or other material |
| 2. | a strengthening often decorative member joining the legs of a chair, table, etc |
| 3. | the wooden frame on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting |
| 4. | a tie beam or brace used in a structural framework |
| 5. | Compare header a brick or stone laid horizontally with its length parallel to the length of a wall |
| 6. | rowing a fixed board across a boat on which an oarsman braces his feet |
| 7. | (Austral), (NZ) a camp bed |
| 8. | slang an exaggeration or lie |
| —vb | |
| 9. | to transport (a sick or injured person) on a stretcher |
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Word Origin & History
stretch
1540s, "act of stretching," from stretch (v.); meaning "unbroken continuance of some activity" is first recorded 1680s; meaning "straightaway of a race course" (e.g. home stretch) is recorded from 1841.
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Medical Dictionary
stretcher stretch·er (strěch'ər)
n.
A litter, usually of canvas stretched over a frame, used to transport the sick, wounded, or dead.
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Slang Dictionary
stretch definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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