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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strain1
▶verb
- 1 force (a part of one's body or oneself) to make an unusually great effort.
■ injure (a limb, muscle, or organ) by overexertion.
■ make a strenuous and continuous effort.
- 2 make severe or excessive demands on.
- 3 pull or push forcibly at something.
- 4 pour (a mainly liquid substance) through a sieve or similar device to separate out any solid matter.
■ drain off (liquid) in this way.
- 1 a force tending to strain something to an extreme degree.
■ Physics the magnitude of a deformation, equal to the change in the dimension of a deformed object divided by its original dimension.
- 2 an injury caused by straining a muscle, limb, etc.
- 3 a severe demand on strength or resources.
■ a state of tension or exhaustion resulting from this.
- 4 (usu. strains) the sound of a piece of music.
– derivatives
strainable adjective.
strainable adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. estreindre, from L. stringere ‘draw tight’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strain2
▶noun
- 1 a distinct breed, stock, or variety of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 2 a tendency in a person's character.
– origin OE strīon ‘acquisition, gain’, of Gmc origin.
'strain' also found in these Oxford entries:
Africanize
- Alexander technique
- auxotroph
- avermectin
- break
- colander
- crack
- cramp
- creak
- crick
- distress
- drain
- entasis
- extend
- fray
- gasp
- HeLa cells
- Hooke's law
- percolate
- plate
- pull
- repetitive strain injury
- rick
- RSI
- safety factor
- serotype
- set
- shear
- spring
- strained
- strain gauge
- stress
- tax
- tension
- whalebone
- wild type
- withers
- Young's modulus
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a native 'strain' / 'strains'
a strain for employers
a strain on your pocket
an airy strain
Don't strain your hand too much
Don't strain yourself!
emotional strain
filter or strain from
I have/get body strain all over
quality of mercy is not strain'd
stiff neck/strain
strain
strain
strain
strain - stress or breed
strain every nerve to do
strain of
strain on vs. strain of
strain one's ears
Strain one's eyes / strain to see something
strain the convention/subvert
strain the nerves of someone
strain the pension system
strain towards
Strain you mind
strain'd
strain/species
take up the strain
Taking the strain
more...
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