Dictionary Entry
stress
stress is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Distress. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Distress.
- 2noun
Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
- 3noun
The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
- 4noun
Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
- 5noun
Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- 6transitive verb
To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
- 7transitive verb
To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
- 8noun
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
"he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
- 9noun
(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
"the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"
- 10noun
(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
"he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"
"stress is a vasoconstrictor"
- 11noun
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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- 12noun
special emphasis attached to something
"the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
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- 13verb
put stress on; utter with an accent
"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
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- 14verb
to stress, single out as important
"Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
- 15verb
test the limits of
"You are trying my patience!"
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