stress
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stress/stres/
▶noun
- 1 pressure or tension exerted on a material object.
■ Physics the magnitude of this measured in units of force per unit area.
- 2 a state of mental, emotional, or other strain.
- 3 particular emphasis.
■ emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech.
- 1 emphasize.
■ give emphasis to (a syllable or word) when pronouncing it.
- 2 subject to stress.
– derivatives
stressless adjective,
stressor noun.
stressless adjective,
stressor noun.
'stress' also found in these Oxford entries:
accent
- adaptogen
- antidote
- atonic
- bulk modulus
- Caribbean
- clench
- comfortable
- comparable
- contribute
- controversy
- creep
- decade
- de-stress
- dilatancy
- duvet day
- emphasis
- extensometer
- fatigue
- flow
- flutter
- force
- fraught
- galvanic skin response
- harass
- home
- Hooke's law
- humongous
- hysteria
- ictus
- -ier
- integral
- irritable bowel syndrome
- kilometre
- locale
- low-impact
- morale
- nerve-racking
- nervous breakdown
- -ometer
- overstress
- painless
- permanent set
- perspire
- piezoelectricity
- pipe
- postal
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- prestressed
- prosody
