Meaning of strain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Race; lineage, pedigree.
   archaic
2. A surname.
3. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
   countable, uncountable
4. A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
5. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
   countable, uncountable
6. Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
   figuratively
7. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
   countable, uncountable
8. 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, etc.
9. A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
   uncountable
10. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
11. The track of a deer.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. A kind or sort (of person etc.).
    rare
13. Treasure.
    obsolete
14. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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 vigour and fertility to the offspring; […]”

“They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.”

“European scientists have discovered a new strain of the virus that causes AIDS and linked it to gorillas, creating a mystery about when and how the first patient found to have the strain became infected.”

“There is a strain of madness in her family.”

“Intemperance and Luſt breed infirmities and diſeaſes, which, being propagated, ſpoil the Strain of a Nation.”

“Yet Keats, though for so many years he has given nothing to the world, is understood to have devoted himself to the composition of an epic poem. Some passages of it have been communicated to the inner circle of his admirers, and impressed them as the loftiest strains that have been audible on earth since Milton’s days.”

“A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.”

“the common strain”

“Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.”

“If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching ...”

“Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the influence of strain on the corrosion resistance of passivated Nitinol and stainless steel implant materials. Materials and Methods Nitinol (50.8%at. Ni) wire (NDC, Fremont, CA) and 316L stainless ...”

“he jumped up with a strain”

“the strain upon the sailboat's rigging”

“They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.”

“Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.”

“Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.”

“When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.”

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