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strain
(mass) | strain
- úsilie, namáhať |
strain
(encz) | strain,cedit v: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,deformovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,kmen n: [bio.] inbred strain = inbrední kmen mamm |
strain
(encz) | strain,namáhat Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,namáhat se Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,napětí Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,napínat v: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,napnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,napnutí Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,nápor n: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,plemeno n: [bio.] mamm |
strain
(encz) | strain,rasa n: [bio.] mamm |
strain
(encz) | strain,tlak n: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,úsilí Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,usilovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,vypětí Zdeněk Brož |
strain
(encz) | strain,zatížení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Strain
(gcide) | Strain \Strain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Straining.] [OF. estraindre, estreindre, F. ['e]treindre,
L. stringere to draw or bind tight; probably akin to Gr. ? a
halter, ? that which is squeezwd out, a drop, or perhaps to
E. strike. Cf. Strangle, Strike, Constrain, District,
Strait, a. Stress, Strict, Stringent.]
1. 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. "To
strain his fetters with a stricter care." --Dryden.
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2. (Mech.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of
form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
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3. To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
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He sweats,
Strains his young nerves. --Shak.
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They strain their warbling throats
To welcome in the spring. --Dryden.
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4. 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.
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There can be no other meaning in this expression,
however some may pretend to strain it. --Swift.
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5. To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of
force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
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6. 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.
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Prudes decayed about may track,
Strain their necks with looking back. --Swift.
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7. To squeeze; to press closely.
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Evander with a close embrace
Strained his departing friend. --Dryden.
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8. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
effort; to force; to constrain.
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He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth
Is forced and strained. --Denham.
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The quality of mercy is not strained. --Shak.
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9. To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
petition or invitation.
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Note, if your lady strain his entertainment. --Shak.
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10. 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.
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To strain a point, to make a special effort; especially, to
do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own
feelings.
To strain courtesy, to go beyond what courtesy requires; to
insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others; --
often used ironically. --Shak.
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Strain
(gcide) | Strain \Strain\, n. [See Strene.]
1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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He is of a noble strain. --Shak.
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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. --Darwin.
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2. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
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Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which,
propogated, spoil the strain of nation. --Tillotson.
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3. Rank; a sort. "The common strain." --Dryden.
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4. (Hort.) A cultural subvariety that is only slightly
differentiated.
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Strain
(gcide) | Strain \Strain\, n.
1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Specifically:
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(a) 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.
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Whether any poet of our country since
Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of
powers with less strain and less ostentation.
--Landor.
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Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers
a strain. --Sir W.
Temple.
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(b) (Mech. Physics) A change of form or dimensions of a
solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. --Rankine.
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2. (Mus.) 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.
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Their heavenly harps a lower strain began. --Dryden.
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3. 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. "A strain of gallantry." --Sir W. Scott.
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Such take too high a strain at first. --Bacon.
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The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs.
--Tillotson.
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It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet
contains
Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains.
--Bunyan.
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4. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
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Because heretics have a strain of madness, he
applied her with some corporal chastisements.
--Hayward.
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Strain
(gcide) | Strain \Strain\ (str[=a]n), v. i.
1. To make violent efforts. "Straining with too weak a wing."
--Pope.
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To build his fortune I will strain a little. --Shak.
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2. To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through
a sandy soil.
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strain
(wn) | strain
n 1: (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action
of applied forces
2: 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 [syn: stress, strain]
3: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she
was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody,
air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase]
4: (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" [syn:
strain, mental strain, nervous strain]
5: 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" [syn: breed, strain,
stock]
6: (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ
in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of
microorganisms" [syn: form, variant, strain, var.]
7: injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in
swelling and pain
8: the general meaning or substance of an utterance; "although I
disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"
[syn: tenor, strain]
9: an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving,
nisus, pains, strain]
10: an intense or violent exertion [syn: strain, straining]
11: the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up
to the gates" [syn: song, strain]
v 1: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to
hear" [syn: strive, reach, strain]
2: test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" [syn:
try, strain, stress]
3: 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" [syn: strain, extend]
4: separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device
to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [syn:
sift, sieve, strain]
5: cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a
phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" [syn: tense,
strain, tense up] [ant: loosen up, make relaxed,
relax, unlax, unstrain, unwind]
6: become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck
muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was
attached" [syn: strain, tense]
7: remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the
impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, {separate
out}, filter out]
8: rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender;
"puree the vegetables for the baby" [syn: puree, strain]
9: alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was
deformed by leprosy" [syn: deform, distort, strain] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
constrain
(mass) | constrain
- nútiť |
constraint
(mass) | constraint
- obmedzenie |
restrain
(mass) | restrain
- brániť, obmedziť |
restraining
(mass) | restraining
- obmedzenie |
restraint
(mass) | restraint
- obmedzený, obmedzenie, prekážka |
selfrestraint
(mass) | self-restraint
- sebaovládanie, sebakontrola |
strain
(mass) | strain
- úsilie, namáhať |
strains
(mass) | strains
- napätie |
unconstrained
(mass) | unconstrained
- nenútený |
unconstraint
(mass) | unconstraint
- bezohľadnosť, svojvoľnosť |
without restraint
(mass) | without restraint
- neobmedzene |
bankruptcy constraint
(encz) | bankruptcy constraint,omezení bankrotem [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
budget constraint
(encz) | budget constraint,rozpočtové omezení Mgr. Dita Gálová |
combination in restraint of trade
(encz) | combination in restraint of trade, n: |
constrain
(encz) | constrain,nutit v: Zdeněk Brožconstrain,omezit v: Toldaconstrain,přinutit v: Zdeněk Brož |
constrained
(encz) | constrained,nucený adj: Zdeněk Brožconstrained,přinucený adj: Zdeněk Brožconstrained,vynucený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
constrained extreme
(encz) | constrained extreme,vázaný extrém [mat.] web |
constrainedly
(encz) | constrainedly,nuceně Zdeněk Brož |
constraining
(encz) | constraining,limitující adj: Zdeněk Brožconstraining,omezující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
constrains
(encz) | constrains,omezuje v: Zdeněk Brožconstrains,přinucuje v: Zdeněk Brož |
constraint
(encz) | constraint,donucení n: Zdeněk Brožconstraint,nátlak n: Zdeněk Brožconstraint,omezení n: Zdeněk Brožconstraint,přinucení n: Zdeněk Brožconstraint,rozpaky Zdeněk Brožconstraint,sebeovládání parkmajconstraint,stísněnost parkmajconstraint,zdrženlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
constraints
(encz) | constraints,omezení n: pl. Zdeněk Brožconstraints,zábrany n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
cotton strain
(encz) | cotton strain, n: |
crack under the strain
(encz) | crack under the strain,propadnout hysterii Zdeněk Brož |
demand restraint
(encz) | demand restraint, |
distrain
(encz) | distrain,zabavit v: Zdeněk Brož |
distrainer
(encz) | distrainer,exekutor n: Zdeněk Brož |
distraint
(encz) | distraint,exekuce n: Zdeněk Broždistraint,zabavení n: Zdeněk Brož |
eyestrain
(encz) | eyestrain,namáhání očí Zdeněk Brožeyestrain,únava očí Zdeněk Brož |
fiscal restraint
(encz) | fiscal restraint, |
head restraint
(encz) | head restraint, n: |
in restraint
(encz) | in restraint, adv: |
mental strain
(encz) | mental strain, n: |
monetary restraint
(encz) | monetary restraint, |
nervous strain
(encz) | nervous strain, n: |
overstrain
(encz) | overstrain,přepětí Zdeněk Brož |
poinsettia strain
(encz) | poinsettia strain, n: |
repetitive strain injury
(encz) | repetitive strain injury, |
restrain
(encz) | restrain,bránit v: PetrVrestrain,držet na uzdě Zdeněk Brožrestrain,kontrola [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačrestrain,krotit v: PetrVrestrain,omezit v: PetrVrestrain,potlačit v: PetrV |
restrained
(encz) | restrained,umírněný adj: Zdeněk Brožrestrained,zdrženlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
restrainer
(encz) | restrainer,zpomalovač n: Zdeněk Brož |
restraining
(encz) | restraining,krocení n: Zdeněk Brožrestraining,omezení n: Zdeněk Brož |
restraining order
(encz) | restraining order, |
restraint
(encz) | restraint,kontrolovaný adj: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,omezení n: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,omezený adj: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,omezování n: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,potlačený adj: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,překážka n: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,sebekázeň Zdeněk Brožrestraint,sebeovládání n: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,umírněný adj: Zdeněk Brožrestraint,zdrženlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
restraint of trade
(encz) | restraint of trade, n: |
self-restrained
(encz) | self-restrained, |
self-restraint
(encz) | self-restraint,sebeovládání n: Zdeněk Brož |
soup-strainer
(encz) | soup-strainer, n: |
strain
(encz) | strain,cedit v: Zdeněk Brožstrain,deformovat v: Zdeněk Brožstrain,kmen n: [bio.] inbred strain = inbrední kmen mammstrain,namáhat Zdeněk Brožstrain,namáhat se Zdeněk Brožstrain,napětí Zdeněk Brožstrain,napínat v: Zdeněk Brožstrain,napnout v: Zdeněk Brožstrain,napnutí Zdeněk Brožstrain,nápor n: Zdeněk Brožstrain,plemeno n: [bio.] mammstrain,rasa n: [bio.] mammstrain,tlak n: Zdeněk Brožstrain,úsilí Zdeněk Brožstrain,usilovat v: Zdeněk Brožstrain,vypětí Zdeněk Brožstrain,zatížení n: Zdeněk Brož |
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