Strain (IPA: /ˈstɹeɪn/)
| Strain (n.) |
Race; stock; generation; descent; family. |
| Strain (n.) |
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. |
| Strain (n.) |
Rank; a sort. |
| Strain (a.) |
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. |
| Strain (a.) |
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. |
| Strain (a.) |
To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. |
| Strain (a.) |
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. |
| Strain (a.) |
To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. |
| Strain (a.) |
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. |
| Strain (a.) |
To squeeze; to press closely. |
| Strain (a.) |
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. |
| Strain (a.) |
To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation. |
| Strain (a.) |
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. |
| Strain (v. i.) |
To make violent efforts. |
| Strain (v. i.) |
To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil. |
| Strain (n.) |
The act of straining, or the state of being strained. |
| Strain (n.) |
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. |
| Strain (n.) |
A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. |
| Strain (n.) |
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. |
| Strain (n.) |
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. |
| Strain (n.) |
Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. |
| Strain |
Injury to a muscle in which the muscle fibers tear as a result of overstretching |
| Strain |
Low-level taxonomic rank used at the intraspecific level (within a species) |
| Strain |
Physical property of lengthening and shortening |
| Strain |
Manga |
| Strain |
Chemistry |
| Strain Synonyms |
Stock, Breed |
| Strain Synonyms |
Breed |
| Strain Synonyms |
Var., Variant, Form |
| Strain Synonyms |
Mental Strain, Nervous Strain |
| Strain Synonyms |
Song |
| Strain Synonyms |
Straining |
| Strain Synonyms |
Stress |
| Strain Synonyms |
Nisus, Pains, Striving |
| Strain Synonyms |
Tenor |
| Strain Synonyms |
Melody, Air, Melodic Phras, Melodic Line, Line, Tune |
| Strain Synonyms |
Deform, Distort |
| Strain Synonyms |
Extend |
| Strain Synonyms |
Separate Out, Filtrate, Filter, Filter Out |
| Strain Synonyms |
Puree |
| Strain Synonyms |
Sift, Sieve Out, Sieve |
| Strain Synonyms |
Strive, Reach |
| Strain Synonyms |
Tense Up, Tense |
| Strain Synonyms |
Tense |
| Strain Synonyms |
Try, Stress |
| Strain (Last Name / Surname) |
Strain is the #3,999 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 8,883 people had that surname. |
| Strain (Sexual Terminology) |
Gonorrhea |
| Translations |
Strain in Spanish |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship." - John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls." - Bertolt Brecht |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " And so no force, however great, Can strain a cord, however fine, Into a horizontal line That shall be absolutely straight." - Poetry |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." - Difficulties |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Hugo deVries: I like being dead. It takes the strain out of living." - Inspector Morse (TV series) |
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