strain

IPA: strˈeɪn

(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
(figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
(music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
(uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
(obsolete) The track of a deer.
A surname.

(transitive, obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
(transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
(transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
(transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
(transitive, intransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
(transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
(transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
(intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
(transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
(transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
(transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
(obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

Examples of "strain" in Sentences

(AP) - A groin strain is exactly the type of injury that most goalies dread.
A: The O157 strain is not naturally present in humans, but does occur in cattle.
Gilbert Arenas was held out of practice on Friday after sustaining a mild groin strain in the preseason loss to Milwaukee.
Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, saying that some of these relations are what he described as strain at this point.
"She makes writing a book sound like busywork ... the strain is as palpable as the voice is cute, and the drama is virtually nonexistent."
Gilbert Arenas practiced again, showing no problems with his mild groin strain, but No. 1 overall pick John Wall sat out with a groin injury of his own.
I. i.259 (286,2) The strain of man's bred out/Into baboon and monkey] Man is exhausted and degenerated; his _strain_ or lineage is worn down into monkey.
Richard Hamilton returned after missing eight games with a groin strain, meaning the Pistons went back to a three-guard lineup despite going 6-2 without Hamilton.
Saunders said Gilbert Arenas (mild right groin strain) practiced on Thursday, but Kirk Hinrich was forced to sit out of contact stuff after developing a charlie horse.
"I want to stop it almost as much as you do, but it looked to me this morning as though what you call strain were a steady drift which pays no sort of heed to our trying to stop it."