Litter vs. Stretcher — What's the Difference?

Litter consists of waste products that have been discarded incorrectly, without consent, at an unsuitable location. Litter can also be used as a verb; to litter means to drop and leave objects, often man-made, such as aluminum cans, paper cups, food wrappers, cardboard boxes or plastic bottles on the ground, and leave them there indefinitely or for other people to dispose of as opposed to disposing of them correctly.

A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people.

Rubbish such as paper, cans, and bottles left lying in an open or public place

A litter, usually of canvas stretched over a frame, used to transport the sick, wounded, or dead.

A number of young animals born to an animal at one time

One that stretches, such as the wooden framework on which canvas is stretched for an oil painting.

Absorbent material, typically in granular form, used to line a shallow receptacle in which a cat can urinate and defecate when indoors

A usually horizontal tie beam or brace serving to support or extend a framework.

Straw or other plant matter used as bedding for animals

A brick or stone laid parallel to the face of a wall so that only its long side is showing.

A structure used to transport people, containing a bed or seat enclosed by curtains and carried on men's shoulders or by animals.

(Informal) An exaggerated or fabricated assertion or anecdote

Make (a place or area) untidy with rubbish or a large number of objects left lying about

One who, or that which, stretches.

Provide (a horse or other animal) with litter as bedding.

A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper

A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

A disorderly accumulation of objects; a pile. “An iron washstand [stood] in the corner amidst a litter of soap and soiled towels” (Molly Gloss).

A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

The group of offspring produced at one birth by a mammal.

A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).

Material, such as straw, used as bedding for animals.

(architecture) A piece of timber used in building.

An absorbent material for covering the floor of an animal's cage or litterbox.

(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.

An enclosed or curtained couch mounted on shafts and used to carry a single passenger.

(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.

A flat supporting framework, such as a piece of canvas stretched between parallel shafts, for carrying a disabled or dead person; a stretcher.

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.

Fallen leaves and other decaying organic matter that make up the top layer of a forest floor.

(obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.

To give birth to (a litter).

(transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

To make untidy by discarding rubbish carelessly

One who, or that which, stretches.

To scatter about

A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.

To be scattered about (an area)

A piece of timber used in building.

To include certain items such as expressions throughout (a speech or piece of writing, for example)

A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.

(Archaic) To supply (animals) with litter for bedding or floor covering.

A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.

To give birth to a litter.

An overstretching of the truth; a lie.

To scatter litter.

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.

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.

The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

A wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

A mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

A litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

A stone that forms the top of wall or building

A covering of straw for plants.

(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.

(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.

(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.

(transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

To give birth to; to bear; - said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

To produce a litter.

The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

Material used to provide a bed for animals

Strew;

Make a place messy by strewing garbage around

Give birth to a litter of animals