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Stretched vs Stretcher - What's the difference?

stretched | stretcher |

As verbs the difference between stretched and stretcher

is that stretched is (stretch) while stretcher is to carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

As a noun stretcher is

one who, or that which, stretches.

stretched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stretch)

    • stretch

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To lengthen by pulling.
  • (label) To lengthen when pulled.
  • * Boyle
    • The inner membrane because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
  • (label) To pull tight.
  • To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
  • To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
  • (label) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
  • (label) To extend to a limit point
  • (label) To increase.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.}}
  • To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
    • a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
  • (label) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
    • The ship stretched to the eastward.

    Noun

    (es)
  • An act of stretching.
    • I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
    To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
  • The ability to lengthen when pulled.
    • That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
  • A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
    • It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
  • A segment of a journey or route.
    • It was an easy trip except for the last stretch , which took forever.
  • (label) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
  • (label) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
  • A length of time.
    • He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
  • *
    • After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever
  • (label) A term of address for a tall person
  • * 2007 , Michael Farrell, Running with Buffalo
  • *:“Hey, Stretch ,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, at full stretch , by a long stretch , cat stretch , outstretch , overstretch , seventh inning stretch , stretchable , stretch limo , stretch of the imagination , stretch mark , stretch out , stretch pants , stretcher , stretchy}}

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    stretcher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, stretches.
  • A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill.}}
  • A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
  • A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
  • A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
    • (Gwilt)
  • (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
  • (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
  • (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
  • (nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
    • (Dana)
  • 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.
  • An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
  • (obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher , with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood}}

    Derived terms

    * stretcher-bearer * stretcher case

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.