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单词 stretcher
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
stretch•er /ˈstrɛtʃɚ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a framework of a piece of canvas and two long poles on the side, used to carry a sick or dead person.
  2. a person or thing that stretches.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
stretch•er  (strechər),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Medicine
    • a kind of litter, often of canvas stretched on a frame, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead.
    • 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. Buildinga bar, beam, or fabricated material, serving as a tie or brace.
  5. Building[Masonry.]a brick or stone laid in a wall so that its longer edge is exposed or parallel to the surface. Cf. header (def. 5a).
  6. Fine Arta simple wooden framework on which the canvas for an oil painting is stretched.
  7. Furniture
    • a framework connecting and bracing the legs of a piece of furniture.
    • one member of this framework.
  8. Nautical, Naval Termsa crosspiece that is set athwart and near the bottom in a small boat, and against which the feet of a rower are braced.
  9. one of the thin, sliding rods connecting the canopy and handle of an umbrella.

v.t. 
  1. Fine Artto stretch (canvas for a painting) on a stretcher.
  • late Middle English stretcher. See stretch, -er1 1375–1425

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
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. a brick or stone laid horizontally with its length parallel to the length of a wall
  6. a fixed board across a boat on which an oarsman braces his feet
  7. Austral NZ a camp bed
vb (transitive)
  1. to transport (a sick or injured person) on a stretcher
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