stretcher

brancard, civière

Cadre ou lit plat servant à transporter une personne blessée, malade ou décédée.

En anglais simple : A flat frame or bed used to carry a person who is injured, ill, or dead.

• They carried him on a stretcher.
• Paramedics lifted the patient onto the stretcher.
• Two stretchers were waiting beside the ambulance.

Synonymes : litter

Expressions courantes : on a stretcher, carry a stretcher, stretcher bearer

élargisseur de chaussures, élargisseur de gants

Appareil placé dans une chaussure ou un gant pour l’élargir ou l’agrandir.

En anglais simple : A device placed inside a shoe or glove to make it wider or larger.

• The stretcher made my shoes wider.
• She left a shoe stretcher inside the tight boot overnight.
• A glove stretcher helped loosen the stiff leather.

Expressions courantes : shoe stretcher, glove stretcher, wooden stretcher

châssis

Cadre qui maintient une toile tendue pour permettre à un artiste de peindre dessus.

En anglais simple : A frame that holds a piece of cloth tight so an artist can paint on it.

• She fixed the canvas to a stretcher.
• The artist made a wooden stretcher for his painting.
• Loose stretcher bars allowed the canvas to sag.

Expressions courantes : canvas stretcher, wooden stretcher, stretcher bars

tendeur

Personne ou appareil qui tire sur quelque chose pour l’allonger, l’élargir ou le tendre.

En anglais simple : A person or device that pulls something to make it longer, wider, or tighter.

• The stretcher pulled the fabric tight.
• A mechanical stretcher made the material longer.
• The worker used a wire stretcher to tighten the fence.

Expressions courantes : fabric stretcher, mechanical stretcher, wire stretcher

transporter sur un brancard

Transporter une personne blessée sur un cadre ou un lit plat spécialement conçu pour cela.

En anglais simple : To carry an injured person on a special flat frame or bed.

• They stretchered the injured player off the field.
• Rescuers stretchered her down the mountain.
• He was stretchered into the waiting ambulance.

Comment l'utiliser : stretcher someone off something (Medics stretchered the player off the pitch.); be stretchered to somewhere (She was stretchered to the ambulance.)

Expressions courantes : stretcher someone off, stretcher someone away, stretcher someone out