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Definition of Strain

Strain A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. Rank; a sort. 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. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. 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. To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. 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. To squeeze; to press closely. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation. 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 violent efforts. To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil. The act of straining, or the state of being strained. 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. A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. 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. 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. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. Related Definitions: Accused, Act, Action, Also, An, And, Any, Apparent, As, Bar, Be, Beam, Being, Bend, Beyond, Book, Burden, By, Career, Cause, Causing, Change, Character, Closely, Cloth, Complete, Conduct, Constrain, Convict, Course, Cultural, Descent, Disposition, Distinct, Divided, Do, Double, Draw, Drawing, Effort, Excessive, Exert, Exertion, Extend, Extraneous, Family, Filter, Filtered, Filtration, Force, Form, From, Gale, Generation, Great, Harm, He, Hereditary, His, Horse, Hurt, Hurtful, Importunity, In, Inborn, Injure, Injury, Instrument, Intent, Invitation, Is, It, Law, Lifted, Limit, Liquid, Make, Manner, Mass, Matter, Meaning, Milk, Motive, Movement, Muscle, Music, Musical, Noble, Note, Ode, Of, Off, On, Only, Or, Oration, Order, Other, Overexertion, Overloading, Pass, Percolate, Period, Person, Pervading, Petition, Ply, Poem, Porous, Portion, Press, Produce, Produced, Proper, Purify, Quality, Race, Rank, Resulting, Rigging, Rope, Rounded, Sandy, Screen, Sentence, Separate, Ship, Slightly, So, Soil, Solid, Some, Song, Sort, Spoke, Sprain, Squeeze, State, Stock, Story, Strain, Strained, Strainer, Straining, Stress, Stretch, Stretching, Strong, Style, Subdivision, Substance, Subvariety, Sustained, Tendency, Tension, That, The, Theme, There, Through, To, Too, Trickery, Turn, Uneasy, Unnatural, Upon, Urge, Utmost, Violence, Violent, Volume, Was, Water, Way, Weight, With, Woe, Wrist

Strain Quotations With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Abraham Lincoln Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. Lyndon B. Johnson Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. Robert Lynd

Strain Translations strain in French is accablement strain in German is anstrengen, Anspannung {f} strain in Italian is aggravio, fatica strain in Latin is intendo, nixor, nixus strain in Spanish is esfuerzo, gravamen, colar

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