different between outstretched vs cartwheel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?t?st??t??t/
• Rhymes: -?t?t
• Hyphenation: out?stretched

Adjective

outstretched (comparative more outstretched, superlative most outstretched)

1. extended or stretched out

   They ran towards each other with arms outstretched, and the credits rolled.

Translations

Verb

outstretched

1. simple past tense and past participle of outstretch

Anagrams

• stretched out

English

Etymology

cart +? wheel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?wi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??t?wil/

Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

1. The literal wheel of a cart.
2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
3. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

     Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

4. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Translations

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle cartwheeled)

1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
2. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

   The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.