Stress
[stres] or [strɛs]
Definition
(noun.) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); 'he put the stress on the wrong syllable'.
(noun.) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; 'the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area'.
(noun.) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; 'she endured the stresses and strains of life'; 'he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger'- R.J.Samuelson.
(noun.) special emphasis attached to something; 'the stress was more on accuracy than on speed'.
(verb.) put stress on; utter with an accent; 'In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word'.
(verb.) to stress, single out as important; 'Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet'.
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Definition
(n.) Distress.
(n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
(v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
(v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Force, strain.[2]. Pressure, urgency.[3]. Importance, significance, weight.[4]. Emphasis, accent.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Force, strain, weight, importance, pressure, urgency, emphasis
ANT:Alleviation, stillness, lightness, unimportance, casualty, touch, triviality
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Definition
n. distress: legal distraining.
n. force: pressure: urgency: strain: violence as of the weather: the relative loudness or emphasis with which certain syllables are pronounced accent: weight importance: (mech.) force exerted in any direction or manner between two bodies—the greatest stress which a substance will bear without being torn asunder being its ultimate strength.—v.t. to constrain: lay stress on: to emphasise.
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Examples
- In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But his eyes were beautiful and soft and immune from stress or excitement, beautiful and smiling lightly to her, smiling with her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When they reached the bank there stood Thomasin, in a stress of grief, bending over the two unconscious ones who already lay there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The resolute side of him had, to all appearance, given way, in the interval since his departure, under the stress that had been laid on it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But in the actual stress of life these frictions do not survive ten minutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He laid a heavy hand on my shoulder, and leaning on me with some stress, limped to his horse. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The approach to issues, the way in which they shall be stressed, what shall be put forward in one part of the country and what in another, are discussed at these meetings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These stresses are results of the longitudinal and radial pressures of the gas developed by the ignition and explosion of the powder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our wars, our social conflict, our enormous economic stresses, are all aspects of that adjustment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The two great western powers, and Rome perhaps more than Carthage, were strained mentally and morally by the stresses of the First War. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These stresses could be used for the benefit of this power or the detriment of that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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