strain

Definitions

1. 1noun

   Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

2. 2noun

   Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

3. 3noun

   Rank; a sort.

4. 4adjective

   To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.

5. 5adjective

   To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.

6. 6adjective

   To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.

7. 7adjective

   To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.

8. 8adjective

   To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.

9. 9adjective

   To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.

10. 10adjective

    To squeeze; to press closely.

11. 11adjective

    To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

12. 12adjective

    To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.

13. 13adjective

    To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.

14. 14intransitive verb

    To make violent efforts.

15. 15intransitive verb

    To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.

16. 16noun

    The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

17. 17noun

    A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.

18. 18noun

    A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.

19. 19noun

    A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

20. 20noun

    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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.

21. 21noun

    Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

22. 22noun

    the act of singing

    "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"

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    song
23. 23noun

    an intense or violent exertion

    Synonyms

    straining
24. 24noun

    an effortful attempt to attain a goal

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    nisuspainsstriving
25. 25noun

    the general meaning or substance of an utterance

    "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"

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    tenor
26. 26noun

    a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

    "she was humming an air from Beethoven"

    Synonyms

    airlinemelodytune
27. 27noun

    a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

    "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"

    "he created a new strain of sheep"

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    breedstock
28. 28noun

    (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups

    "a new strain of microorganisms"

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    formvariant
29. 29noun

    (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces

30. 30noun

    injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain

31. 31noun

    (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress

    "his responsibilities were a constant strain"

    "the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him"

32. 32noun

    difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension- R.J.Samuelson

    "she endured the stresses and strains of life"

    "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"

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    stress
33. 33verb

    cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

    "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"

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    tense
34. 34verb

    alter the shape of (something) by stress

    "His body was deformed by leprosy"

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    deformdistort
35. 35verb

    to exert much effort or energy

    "straining our ears to hear"

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    reachstrive
36. 36verb

    use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity

    "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"

    "Don't strain your mind too much"

    Synonyms

    extend
37. 37verb

    rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender

    "puree the vegetables for the baby"

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    puree
38. 38verb

    remove by passing through a filter

    "filter out the impurities"

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    filterfiltrate
39. 39verb

    separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements

    "sift the flour"

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    sievesift
40. 40verb

    become stretched or tense or taut "the rope strained when the weight was attached"

    "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;"

    Synonyms

    tense
41. 41verb

    test the limits of

    "You are trying my patience!"

    Synonyms

    stresstry