Word Finder - stress

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(Cause of) discomfort.

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Serious danger.

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An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.

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A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.

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The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

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A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.

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Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.

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The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.

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Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.

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Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

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Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.

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The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.

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Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.

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Emphasis placed on words in speaking.

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Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

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

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To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.

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To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).

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To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.

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To emphasise (a syllable of a word).

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“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.

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To emphasise (words in speaking).

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To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

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I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.

But I stress the word "reasonably."

Just don't put stress on yourself trying to be frugal.

Mary needs an environment without stress.

Diablo. He's Yancey's method of relieving stress and getting away from us women once in a while.

I'm not allowed to stress you out, but can you, like, try?

I've caused you so much stress – and at a time when I should have been supporting you.

Finally he laid stress upon the immense importance of Livonia for the development of Russian trade.

The superiority of the Christian faith both philosophically and ethically is set forth, the chief stress being laid on monachism, with which heathen philosophy has nothing to compare.

The last thing was stress.

Certainly she had been under a lot of stress.

It ceases to lay much stress upon coincidences between Old Testament predictions or " types " and events in Christ's career.

Simply purchasing needs without the stress of budgeting was a relief.

Much stress is laid on the value of manure, and mention is made of clover.

The last years of his life were troubled by a new period of storm and stress which called for his highest powers of calculation and self-control.

The evidence as set out by Darwin has been added to enormously; new knowledge has in many cases altered our conceptions of the mode of the actual process of evolution, and from time to time a varying stress has been laid on what are known as the purely Darwinian factors in the theory.

She had thought of the stress on an adopted baby before, but in this instance, her entire focus had been on Lori.

To a youth and womanhood of storm and stress had succeeded an old age of serene activity and then of calm decay.

Both Darwin and Wallace lay great stress on the close relation which obtains between the existing fauna of any region and that of the immediately antecedent geological epoch in the same region; and rightly, for it is in truth inconceivable that there should be no genetic connexion between the two.

They laid great stress on the nitrogenous nature of protoplasm, and noted that it preceded the formation of the cell-membrane.

He felt then, and still more after the Reform Act of 1866, that "we must educate our masters," 1 and he rather scandalized his old university friends by the stress he laid on physical science as opposed to classical studies.

But great stress was laid on the production of written evidence.

All the stress now fell on the disposition, not on the outward act.

Whatever happened … There's nothing to stress about, he added when she was silent.

That's what matters, not a formality that only creates more stress.

And yet, like an unruly child, she had rebelled, causing him endless worry and stress.

With the Brethren, however, the chief stress was laid, not on doctrine, but on conduct.

Individual leaders in times of stress acquired a recognized supremacy, and, once a tribe outstripped the rest, the opportunities for continued advance gave further scope to their authority.

Seers and prophets of all kinds ranged from those who were consulted for daily mundane affairs to those who revealed the oracles in times of stress, from those who haunted local holy sites to those high in royal favour, from the quiet domestic communities to the austere mountain recluse.

There is no revulsion, as later, from dogma as such, nor is more stress laid upon one dogma than upon another; all are treated upon the same footing, and the whole dogmatic system is held, as it were, in solution by the philosophic medium in which it is presented.

Its chief importance is perhaps the stress which it laid on the vital connexion which must subsist between true economic theory and the wider facts of social and national development.

In several recent attempts to group the orders into sub-classes, stress has been laid upon a few characters in the imago.

Some of those zoologists who look to Peripatus, or a similar worm-like form, as representing the direct ancestors of the Hexapoda have laid stress on a larva like the caterpillar of a moth or saw-fly as representing a primitive stage.

A large section of her members, accordingly, laying stress on this side of her tradition, prefer to call themselves " Catholics."

By the union of great moral qualities with high, though not the highest, intellectual faculties, he carried the Indian empire safely through the stress of the storm, and, what was perhaps a harder task still, he dealt wisely with the enormous difficulties arising at the close of such a war, established a more liberal policy and a sounder financial system, and left the people more contented than they were before.

The "Cleveland plan," in force in the public schools, minimizes school routine, red tape and frequent examinations, puts great stress on domestic and manual training courses, and makes promotion in the grammar schools depend on the general knowledge and development of the pupil, as estimated by a teacher who is supposed to make a careful study of the individual.

These deal with the casuists of the Counter - Reformation in the spirit of Milton, laying especial stress on the artificiality of their methods and the laxity of their results.

Our Health & Beauty Rooms offer the perfect antidote to stress.

Maybe it was relief from the stress of worrying about that moment – or hormones.

Young, brave and handsome, he won the love and devotion of his people, and guided them through the long years of storm and stress with wisdom and ability.

Congress, however, had now got their opportunity, and they used the time of national stress to bring increased pressure to bear upon the president.

Under the stress of the appalling financial conditions represented by chronic deficit, crushing taxation, the heavy expenditure necessary for the consolidation of the kingdom, the reform of the army and the interest on the pontifical debt, Sella, on the 11th of December 1871, exposed to parliament the financial situation in all its nakedness.

Humboldt's contemporary, Carl Ritter (1779-1859), extended and disseminated the same views, and in his interpretation of " Comparative Geography " he laid stress on the importance of Iditter.

The Lymexylonidae, a small family of this group, characterized by its slender, undifferentiated feelers and feet, is believed by Lameere to comprise the most primitive of all living beetles, and Sharp lays stress on the undeveloped structure of the tribe generally.

In his eighteenth year, while still a student in Edinburgh, he contributed two valuable papers to the Transactions of the same society - one of which, " On the Equilibrium of Elastic Solids," is remarkable, not only on account of its intrinsic power and the youth of its author, but also because in it he laid the foundation of one of the most singular discoveries of his later life, the temporary double refraction produced in viscous liquids by shearing stress.

The great stress which they laid upon this aspect of Christian truth caused them to be charged with unbelief in the current orthodox views as to the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the person and work of Christ, a charge which they always denied.

Huss indeed laid more stress on church reform than on theological controversy.

It would appear, however, that Cerinthus laid stress on the rite of circumcision and on the observance of the Sabbath.

Stolypin indeed defended the coup d'etat in the Duma on the ground that the autocrat had merely altered what the autocrat had originally granted; but, while laying stress on the necessity for restoring order in the body politic, he announced a long programme of reforms, including agrarian measures, reform of local government and its extension in the frontier provinces, and state insurance of workmen.

In the younger contemporary prophet of Ephraim, Hosea, the stress is laid on the relation of love (hesed) between Yahweh, the divine husband, and Israel, the faithless spouse.

On the other hand, the magnetic properties of a substance are affected by such causes as mechanical stress and changes of temperature.