strain
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/stɹeɪ̯n/
English
Definitions
noun
- Treasure.
- The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
- Race; lineage, pedigree.
- Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.“There is a strain of madness in her family.”
noun
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.“he jumped up with a strain; the strain upon the sailboat's rigging”
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
verb
- To hold tightly, to clasp.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.“Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.”
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.“The gale strained the timbers of the ship.”
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
verb
- To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.“A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.”