Word Finder - strains

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Treasure.

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The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

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Race; lineage, pedigree.

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Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

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There is a strain of madness in her family.

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A tendency or disposition.

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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

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A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.

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

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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.

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A kind or sort (of person etc.).

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Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

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The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

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

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he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging

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An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

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

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The track of a deer.

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To hold tightly, to clasp.

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To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

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Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.

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

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The gale strained the timbers of the ship.

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To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.

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To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.

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Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.

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

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to strain the law in order to convict an accused person

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

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To percolate; to be filtered.

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water straining through a sandy soil

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

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To urge with importunity; to press.

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to strain a petition or invitation

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Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

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

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A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.

In each case all strains are carefully computed.

Thus regarded, it becomes reasonable to suppose that North and South America have in a broad way been developed under a succession of somewhat similar strains in the earth's crust, and that they are, in so far, favourable witnesses to the theory that there is something individual in the plan of continental growth.

These strains seem to be now extinct, having been replaced by foxhounds, a large variety of which is employed in stag-hunting.

Strains exceeding the "limit of elasticity" result in permanent deformation or (if sufficiently great) in rupture.

Such alterations in temperature produce strains which frequently result in the chipping off of small fragments of the material composing the stone.

Their population is divided between a white minority, among whom there are to be found strains of Indian blood, and a coloured majority, sometimes docile and industrious, sometimes mere savages.

The many strains of E. coli are not all harmful.

It was Gerry Mulligan with a nineteen-fifties piece that filled the room with familiar strains.

The silver grey is a uniform-coloured breed, the fur of which is a rich chinchilla grey, varying in depth in the different strains.

They are pre-eminently dogs for sporting purposes, and special strains or breeds adapted to the peculiarities of different kinds of sporting have been produced.

Staghounds are close derivatives of the bloodhound, and formerly occurred in England in two strains, known respectively as the northern and southern hounds.

Processes of annealing, or very gradual cooling, are intended to relieve these strains, but such processes are only completely effective when the cooling, particularly through those ranges of temperature where the glass is just losing the last traces of plasticity, is extremely gradual, a rate measured in hours per degree Centigrade being required.

But his most remarkable publication at this time was The True-Born Englishman (1701), a satire in rough but extremely vigorous verse on the national objection to William as a foreigner, and on the claim of purity of blood for a nation which Defoe chooses to represent as crossed and dashed with all the strains and races in Europe.

Each year, the United States Centers for Communicable Disease Control predicts the strains of influenza that are likely to appear in the coming year.

Increases in family strains such as economic pressures or divorce may prompt teenagers to depend more on peers for emotional support.

The existence of internal strains in glass can be readil y recognized by examination in polarized light, any signs of double refraction indicating the existence of strain.

The highest strains of the psalmists and the most fervent appeals of the prophets were progressively directed to the great end of praising and preaching the One true God, everlasting, with sincere and pure devotion.

Their functions in annual, biennial and herbaceous perennial plants cease after the ripening of the seed, whilst in plants of longer duration layer after layer of strong woody tissue is formed, which enables them to bear the strains which the weight of foliage and the exposure to wind entail.

In other places also the style is sometimes lively and impressive; though it is rarely indeed that we come across such strains of touching simplicity as in the middle of xciii.

We know nothing of the authors of these poems, which treat of the heroic adventures of the great warriors and lovely ladies of the chivalric age in strains of artless but often exquisite beauty.

The sedentary population of the country villages - the fellahin, or agriculturists - is, on the whole, comparatively unmixed; but traces of various intrusive strains assert themselves.

The size and shape, the complicated spinning motion which it is seen to execute, the internal strains and vibrations which doubtless take place, are all sacrificed in the mental picture in order that attention may be concentrated on those features of the phenomenon which are in the first place most interesting to us.

Hence, unless there be some reason to the contrary, each piece of a machine should be balanced on its axis of rotation; otherwise the centrifugal force will cause strains, vibration and increased friction, and a tendency of the shafts to jump out of their bearings.

He was passionately attached to his wife and children; and, while his friend Beccadelli signed the licentious verses of Hermaphroditus, his own Muse celebrated in liberal but loyal strains the pleasures of conjugal affection, the charm of infancy and the sorrows of a husband and a father in the loss of those he loved.

Harnack 1 praises Schleiermacher's description of dogmatic as "historical," he rather strains the meaning of the remark, and creates fresh confusion.

In buildings wide in proportion to their height it is the ordinary practice to make the floors sufficiently rigid to transfer the lateral strains to the walls, and to brace the wall framings to resist them.

In buildings of small width in proportion to their height this method of securing rigidity, is generally found to be inadequate, and the frame is also braced at right angles to the outer walls to take up the strains directly.

In cases in which the lateral rigidity of the floors is depended upon to transfer the horizontal strains to the exterior walls which are framed to resist them, no form of floor construction should be used which is not laterally strong and rigid.

The world, which perhaps ought to have been vexed, chose rather to be diverted; and the great satirist literally strains his power ut pueris placeat.

In repairing this work the perfectly safe form shown by the dotted lines ka, kj was substituted for the flat surface aj, and this alone, if originally adopted, would have prevented dangerous shearing strains.

Thus placed, no serious strains are caused either by changes of temperature or of moisture or by movements of the lateral supports, and with proper ingredients and care a very thin wall wholly below ground may be made watertight.

Moreover, considerable mass is required to reduce the internal strains caused by changes of temperature.

The late Sir Benjamin Baker, F.R.S., suggested that the stresses might be measured by experiments with elastic models, and among others, experiments were carried out by Messrs Wilson and Gore a with indiarubber models of plane sections of dams (including the foundations) who applied forces to represent the gravity and water pressures in such a manner that the virtual density of the rubber was increased many times without interfering with the proper ratio between gravity and water pressure, and by this means the strains produced were of sufficient magnitude to be easily measured.

It is necessary above all to consider the relation of a people's years of growth and ferment to the song which represents them; for in the strains of Whittier, more than in those of any other 19th-century lyrist, the saying of Fletcher of Saltoun as to the ballads and laws of a nation finds a historic illustration.

Much attention has been paid recently to the cultivation of varieties of wheat that are immune to rust attacks, and care should be taken to select strains that have been proved able to resist the disease.

He studied with attention the still obscure subject of molecular cohesion, and little has been added to what he ascertained on the question of transverse strains and the strength of beams, first brought by him within the scope of mechanical theory.

After the occupation of the country by the Romans, it appears that the horses of their cavalry were crossed with the native mares, and thus there was infused into the breed new blood, consisting probably of strains from very quarter from which Roman remounts were procured.

The crusades were probably the means of introducing fresh strains of blood into England, and of giving opportunity for fresh crossings.

A blend of the Shire and Clydesdale strains of the British rough-legged draught horse (virtually sections of the same breed) is a better animal than either of the parents.

It was the prevalent Brazilian strain, plus two ATCC reference strains.

Analysis showed that competing strains could not coexist in the long term.

This research has overturned 40 years of research based on laboratory strains of feline coronavirus being injected into laboratory cats.

For most observers, the idea of US involvement in the attacks still strains credulity beyond breaking point.

Starter strains had less virulence determinants than food strains, which in turn had less than the pathogenic strains.

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It also suggests growing strains in another of Iraq's sectarian divides.

Principal strains, strain ellipsoid and strain ellipse; special types of strain ellipsoid and Flinn plots.

Many strains are facultative intracellular parasites which produce endotoxins and enterotoxins.

At nights the streets were considerably enlivened by the strains of the boro waits.

There were already strains of bacteria that were becoming resistant to penicillin, so the arrival of the new antibiotic erythromycin was much welcomed.