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.
- (AP) - A groin strain is exactly the type of injury that most goalies dread.
- 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.
- 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."