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[stres] Pronunciation Key
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[stres] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | importance or significance attached to a thing; emphasis: to lay stress upon good manners. |
| 2. | Phonetics. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of special effort in utterance. |
| 3. | Prosody. accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern; beat. |
| 4. | emphasis in melody, rhythm, etc.; beat. |
| 5. | the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain. |
| 6. | Mechanics.
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| 7. | Physiology. a specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism. |
| 8. | physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension: Worry over his job and his wife's health put him under a great stress. |
| 9. | a situation, occurrence, or factor causing this: The stress of being trapped in the elevator gave him a pounding headache. |
| 10. | Archaic. strong or straining exertion. |
| 11. | to lay stress on; emphasize. |
| 12. | Phonetics. to pronounce (a syllable or a word) with prominent loudness: Stress the first syllable of “runner.” Stress the second word in “put up with.” Compare accent (def. 18). |
| 13. | to subject to stress or strain. |
| 14. | Mechanics. to subject to stress. |
—Related forms
stressless, adjective
stress·less·ness, noun
—Synonyms 8. anxiety, burden, pressure, worry.
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| stress
(strěs) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. stressed, stress·ing, stress·es
Phrasal Verb(s): stress out Informal To subject to or undergo extreme stress, as from working too much. [Middle English stresse, hardship, partly from destresse (from Old French; see distress) and partly from Old French estrece, narrowness, oppression (from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere, to draw tight; see strait).] |
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| STRESS
(strěs) Pronunciation Key
n. A computer language designed for use in solving structural analysis problems in civil engineering. [str(uctural) e(ngineering) s(ystems) s(olver).] |
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stress (n.)
stress (n.)
c.1303, "hardship, adversity, force, pressure," in part a shortening of M.Fr. destresse (see distress), in part from O.Fr. estrece "narrowness, oppression," from V.L. *strictia, from L. strictus "compressed," pp. of stringere "draw tight" (see strain (v.)). The purely psychological sense is attested from 1942.
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stress (v.)
stress (v.)
c.1303, "to subject (someone) to force or compulsion," from the source of stress (n.). The fig. meaning "put emphasis on" is first recorded 1896, from notion of laying pressure on something by relying on it.
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| stress | |
noun | |
| 1. | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
| 2. | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: tension] |
| 3. | special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed" |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area" |
verb | |
| 1. | to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" |
| 2. | put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" |
| 3. | test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" [syn: try] |
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(strěs) Pronunciation Key
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stress
[Chapter:] Physical Sciences and Mathematics
stress
In physics, the internal resistance of an object to an external force that tends to deform it.
[Chapter:] Physical Sciences and Mathematics
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stress
[Chapter:] Medicine and Health
stress
A physical factor, such as injury, or mental state, such as anxiety, that disturbs the body's normal state of functioning. Stress may contribute to the development of some illnesses, including heart disease and cancer.
Note: The term stress also refers to the physical and mental state produced in the body when it is influenced by such factors: “The stress of the new job was too much for Tim, so he requested reassignment to his old position in the company.”
[Chapter:] Medicine and Health
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STRESS
STRuctual Engineering Systems Solver.
A system for structural analysis problems in Civil Engineering. STRESS was superseded by STRUDL.
["STRESS: A User's Manual", S.J. Fenves et al, MIT Press 1964].
[Sammet 1969, p. 612].
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Dis*tress"\, n. [OE. destresse, distresse, OF. destresse, destrece, F. d['e]tresse, OF. destrecier to distress, (assumed) LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See Distrain, and cf. Stress.]1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. --Shak. 2. That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. --Burns. 3. A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc. 4. (Law) (a) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc. (b) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. --Bouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. --Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. --Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse. Syn: Affliction; suffering; pain; agony; misery; torment; anguish; grief; sorrow; calamity; misfortune; trouble; adversity. See Affliction.
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Lat"er*al\, a. [L. lateralis, fr. latus, lateris, side: cf. F. lat['e]ral.]1. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree. 2. (Anat.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage (Crystallog.), cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. Lateral equation (Math.), an equation of the first degree. [Obs.] Lateral line (Anat.), in fishes, a line of sensory organs along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct line of color. Lateral pressure or stress (Mech.), a pressure or stress at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; -- distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress. Lateral strength (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency to fracture arising from lateral pressure. Lateral system (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral stiffness is secured.
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Stress
Stress\, v. t. 1. To subject to phonetic stress; to accent. 2. To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.
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