The noun strain is a stretch, effort, or exertion. You can strain your ankle, or your little brother can strain your patience.
Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Noun
the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"
Noun
an intense or violent exertion
Noun
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
Noun
a lineage or race of people
Noun
pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general tenor of his argument"
Noun
a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
Noun
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"
Noun
(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms"
Noun
(physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
Noun
injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
Noun
(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"
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
Verb
make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
Verb
alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
Verb
to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
Verb
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"
Verb
rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby"
Verb
remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
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separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
Verb
stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope"
Verb
test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
n.
Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
n.
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
n.
Rank; a sort.
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.
a.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or
volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
a.
To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
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.
a.
To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force;
as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
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.
a.
To squeeze; to press closely.
a.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
effort; to force; to constrain.
a.
To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
petition or invitation.
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.
v. i.
To make violent efforts.
v. i.
To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining
through a sandy soil.
n.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
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.
n.
A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass,
produced by a stress.
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.
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.
n.
Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
Strain
He is of a noble strain.
With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.2.
Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.3.
Strain
He sweats, Strains his young nerves.
They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring.4.
There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.5.
Prudes decayed about may track, Strain their necks with looking back.7.
Evander with a close embrace Strained his departing friend.8.
He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Is forced and strained.
The quality of mercy is not strained.9.
Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.10.
Strain
To build his fortune I will strain a little.2.
Strain
Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation.
Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain.
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began.3.
Such take too high a strain at first.
The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs.
It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains.4.
Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements.
Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch;
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Usage Examples
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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Other Usage ExamplesA difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
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