"Strain" is a word in ENGLISH
To squeeze; to press closely.
To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
Rank; a sort.
To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
petition or invitation.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or
tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the
strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury
resulting; a sprain.
To make violent efforts.
A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass,
produced by a stress.
To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force;
as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or
volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining
through a sandy soil.
Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to
stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to
strain the cords of a musical instrument.
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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a
course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was
a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his
career.
To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too
strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a
horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in
the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to
convict an accused person.
A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete
musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a
movement.
To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through
a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate
from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to
strain milk through cloth.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
effort; to force; to constrain.
There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended nursing, co-sleeping, carrying the baby in close physical contact, responding promptly to cries or distress, never leaving a baby alone, are all virtually universal in traditional societies that have not become overly "westernized".
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A farmer who's been involved in a terrible road accident with a large truck ended up in court fighting for a big compensation claim."I understand you're claiming damages for the injuries you're supposed to have suffered?" Stated the counsel for the insurance company."Yes, that's right," replied the farmer, nodding his head."You claim you were injured in the accident, yet I have a signed police statement that says that when the attending police officer asked you how you were feeling, you replied, 'I've never felt better inn my life.' Is that the case?""Yeah, but" stammered the farmer."A simple yes or not will suffice," counsel interrupted quickly."Yes," Replied the farmer.Then it was the turn of the farmer's counsel to ask him questions. "Please tell the court the exact circumstance of events following the accident when you made your statement of health," his lawyer said."Certainly," replied the farmer. "After the accident my horse was thrashing around with a broken leg and my poor old dog was howling in pain. This cop comes along, takes one look at my horse and shoots him dead. "Then he goes over to my dog, looks at him and shoots him dead too. Then he come straight over to me and asked me how I was feeling. "Now, mate, what the heck would you have said to him?"
A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
Read the complete definitionAn allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.
Read the complete definitionThe production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a …
Read the complete definitionay-ar payib n IR5, k. o. recently-introduced strain of rice.
Read the complete definitionbákat - To tighten, to be or make tight (strained, close). (cf. hugút, dapát, táning, tríngka).
Read the complete definitionTo strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make …
Read the complete definitionTo be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Read the complete definitionTo draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the …
Read the complete definitionA piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, …
Read the complete definitionTo mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
Read the complete definitionTo fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone …
Read the complete definitionTo strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break …
Read the complete definitionFractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
Read the complete definitionbukug n {1} bone. {2} gun, usually sidearm (slang). v [B126; b3] for a bone to stick in the throat. …
Read the complete definitionTo break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force …
Read the complete definitionThe close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic …
Read the complete definitionA cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a …
Read the complete definitionTo sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass …
Read the complete definitionThe conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
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