stress

Definitions

1. A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
   countable, uncountable
2. Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
   countable, uncountable
3. The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
   countable
4. Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
   countable
5. Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
   uncountable
6. A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
   broadly, countable
7. The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
   countable
8. Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
   uncountable
9. distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress⟳ lately.”

“Lazarus and Folkman’s transactional model⟳ of stress⟳ and coping describes psychological stress⟳ as “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p.19). According to these authors, the essence of inducing stress⟳ is how a person appraises the situation and whether he or she has the physical and mental ability to cope with the problem.”

“Some people put⟳ the stress⟳ on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put⟳ it on the second.”

“The shift from pitch to stress⟳ appears to happen⟳ before the other obliques begin⟳ merging in the Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Primitive Irish, and Middle Indo-Aryan. But further investigation into the timeline of sound⟳ changes […] shows that, at least in Germanic, the oblique and core noun stems sound⟳ quite unpredictably different in all these families by the time of the crucial accent shift from pitch to stress⟳. […] once a language becomes stress-sensitive, there seems to be a strong tendency in early Indo-European languages to shift the stress⟳ to the first syllable. This change⟳ happens shortly after the change⟳ to stress⟳ accent in Proto-Germanic, Proto-Italic, and Proto-Celtic, and even Thessalian, with evidence from Dybo's Law and Verner's Law left behind to show⟳ that sound⟳ changes happened after the changes to stress⟳ accent.”

“With this sad Hersal of his heavy stress⟳, The warlike Damzel was empassion's sore, And said; Sir Knight, your Cause is nothing less Than is your Sorrow , certes if not more”

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