What's the difference between carry and stretcher?

Carry


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
  • (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
  • (v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
  • (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
  • (v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
  • (v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
  • (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
  • (v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
  • (v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
  • (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
  • (v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
  • (v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
  • (v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
  • (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
  • (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
  • (2) Estimations of the degree of incorporation of 14C from the radioactive labeled carbohydrate into the glycerol and fatty acid moieties were carried out.
  • (3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (4) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (5) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (6) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
  • (7) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (8) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (9) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
  • (10) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
  • (11) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
  • (12) The investigations carried out show that the two main serologic types of phage group II are biochemically different.
  • (13) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
  • (14) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
  • (15) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (16) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
  • (17) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
  • (18) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
  • (19) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
  • (20) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.

Stretcher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, stretches.
  • (n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
  • (n.) A piece of timber used in building.
  • (n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
  • (n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
  • (n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
  • (n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
  • (n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lovren was carried off on a stretcher following a tackle by Craig Gardner but has been unable to undergo a scan because of swelling around the knee.
  • (2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
  • (3) The patient is placed in the supine position on a stretcher of adjustable height with his head in a foam rubber conformer.
  • (4) Shawcross, who will join Fabio Capello's England squad for Wednesday's friendly against Egypt, was shown a straight red card before Ramsey was carried off the pitch on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital, where his double break was set today.
  • (5) This procedure can be successfully applied to ureteral stones providing appropriate preoperative cystoscopic manipulations and a correct positioning of the patient on the stretcher of the lithotripter.
  • (6) Green prayer-mats were beds, tables were used as stretchers, while those already treated – blood drenching their shirts – sprawled against the walls at the side.
  • (7) 7.25pm BST 108 mins: Medel can't even walk off the pitch, sitting up on the stretcher as he's taken off and Jose Rojas comes on.
  • (8) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.
  • (9) Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed security forces on rooftops with rifles and a man being carried through the streets on a stretcher.
  • (10) Already missing Michael Carrick, Ángel Di María and Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw was taken off on a stretcher after James McArthur caught him in the face with a stray elbow.
  • (11) Television footage showed women on stretchers being rushed into hospital with anxious relatives by their side.
  • (12) Nepal earthquake: two rescued after five days in Kathmandu building wreckage Read more The dust-covered teenager, who had been trapped in a small gap behind a bike under 6.5ft (two metres) of rubble, was eventually lifted blinking into the sunlight and placed on a stretcher, with a blue brace around his neck and a drip in his arm.
  • (13) Sturridge, who set up Frank Lampard's equalising goal on his first start for his country to cancel out Shane Long's opener, was hurt in a challenge by Glenn Whelan and having fallen to the ground on the touchline, had to be carried to the dressing room on a stretcher.
  • (14) In contrast, routine anesthetic reversal allowed operating room extubation, patient self-transfer to the stretcher, and ambulation on the day of surgery in Hospital B where patients had a 1.7 hour recovery room stay and a 9.6 day postoperative stay.
  • (15) Elderly patients were removed quickly from the stretcher area of the accident and emergency department to the quieter surroundings of the short-stay ward, where their immediate nursing requirements could be readily met.
  • (16) Recent findings reviewed in this paper suggest that in fact all reptants share the same three inhibitory axons: one is a universal common inhibitor, making synaptic connections within all leg muscles; the other two are specific (single-target) inhibitors of the opener and stretcher muscles, respectively (muscles which share a single excitatory axon as their sole source of activation even though they act on different joints).
  • (17) We decided to go forward anyway with two others – Catherine Stacpole, whose son was a well-known monk and writer and a man called Francis Whigham, a stockbroker who had done a great deal of work at Lourdes as a stretcher carrier and helper with the disabled.
  • (18) Augustine Eguavoen was actually stretchered off after this incident, though unsurprisingly he managed to play on after a little "treatment".
  • (19) It showed courage and determination to make sure we got at least a draw – and we actually went down the other end to try to get a winner, and were thankfully able to do that through a great ball from Glen Johnson and good finish by Mame Diouf.” Bournemouth suffered a significant early blow when their top scorer Callum Wilson was carried off on a stretcher in the 17th minute having sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
  • (20) As part of the development of a life support stretcher for transportation of critically ill patients, a portable ventilation system was developed.