strain

IPA: strˈeɪn

noun

  • (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.

verb

  • (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.
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Examples of "strain" in Sentences

  • His muscle is strained.
  • The colander strains the water into a sump.
  • The amount of deformation is called the strain.
  • The Belize strain is considered the most virulent.
  • The symmetry of the stress and strain tensors implies that.
  • The derivative of the shift will produce the strain diagram.
  • But the magic of the formula is rather strained by the process.
  • These behaviors tend to put a lot of stress and strain on the caregiver.
  • Sarah in particular is feeling the strains and pressure of the heavy workload.
  • Unlike the other strains of PVY, some PVYC strains are non aphid transmissible.

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