Definition of Stress

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Stress

To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.

To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.

Distress.

Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.

The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.

Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.

Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.

To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.

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Stress Quotations

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale

Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
Mike Ditka

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant

Stress Translations

stress in Afrikaans is beklemtoon
stress in Danish is betoning
stress in Dutch is accentueren, beklemtonen
stress in French is balisage, souligner, accent, accentuer
stress in German is Beanspruchung, belasten, Belastung, betonen
stress in Italian is accentuare, accento

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