Strain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Race; lineage, pedigree.

   “He is of a noble strain.”

2. isim A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

   “They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.”

3. isim Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.

   “There is a strain of madness in her family.”

4. isim 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, etc.

   “A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.”

5. isim Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
6. isim A kind or sort (of person etc.).

   “the common strain”

7. isim Treasure.
8. isim The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
9. fiil To hold tightly, to clasp.

   “So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd, and colled tenderly […]”

10. fiil To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

    “to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship”

11. fiil To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

    “The gale strained the timbers of the ship.”

12. fiil To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
13. fiil To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.

    “Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.”

14. fiil To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.

    “to strain the law in order to convict an accused person”

15. fiil To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.

    “Strain the noodles and rinse with fresh water until it runs clear. The noodles should be soft, but not mushy.”

16. fiil To percolate; to be filtered.

    “water straining through a sandy soil”

17. fiil To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

    “Prince. How does my Father? / Princeſs. Still talks and plays with Fatyma, but his mirth / Is forc'd and ſtrain'd: In his look appears / A wild diſtracted fierceneſs; […]”

18. fiil To urge with importunity; to press.

    “to strain a petition or invitation”

19. fiil To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
20. isim The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

    “Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.”

21. isim A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.

    “he jumped up with a strain”

22. isim An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

    “They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.”

23. isim A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

    “Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.”

24. isim The track of a deer.

    “When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.”

25. fiil To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

    “A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.”

26. özel isim A surname.