noun. Importance, significance, or emphasis placed on something. synonym: emphasis.

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noun. The relative force with which a sound or syllable is spoken.

noun. The emphasis placed on the sound or syllable spoken most forcefully in a word or phrase.

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noun. The relative force of sound or emphasis given a syllable or word in accordance with a metrical pattern.

noun. A syllable having strong relative emphasis in a metrical pattern.

noun. An accent or mark representing such emphasis or force.

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noun. The internal distribution of force per unit area within a body subject to an applied force or system of forces.

noun. The internal resistance of a body to such an applied force or system of forces.

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noun. A condition of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain.

noun. A condition of metabolic or physiologic impairment in an organism, occurring usually in response to adverse events and capable of causing physical damage.

noun. A condition of psychological strain occurring in people and animals, usually in response to adverse events and capable of causing symptoms and signs such as increased blood pressure, insomnia, and irritability.

noun. A stimulus or circumstance causing such a condition.

intransitive verb. To place emphasis on.

intransitive verb. To give prominence of sound to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.

intransitive verb. To subject to physiological or mental stress or strain. Often used with out.

intransitive verb. To subject to mechanical pressure or force.

intransitive verb. To undergo physiological or mental stress, as from working too much. Often used with out.

noun. In electricity, electromotive force; difference of potential; pressure: as, a stress of 2000 volts.

noun. A stress in the direction opposite to the usual stress to which a piece in a structure is subjected. In this case the negative stress may be either tension or compression.

To straiten; constrain; press; urge; hamper.

In mech., to subject to a stress.

To lay the stress, emphasis, or accent on; emphasize.

noun. Distress; difficulty; extremity; pinch.

noun. In law: The act of distraining; distress.

noun. A former mode of taking up indictments for circuit courts.

noun. Constraining, urging, or impelling force; constraining power or influence; pressure; urgency; violence.

noun. In mech., an elastic force, whether in equilibrium with an external force or not; the force called into play by a strain.

noun. Stretch; strain; effort.

noun. Weight; importance; special force or significance; emphasis.

noun. The relative loudness with which certain syllables or parts of syllables are pronounced; emphasis in utterance; accent; ictus.

noun. Relatively to another stress, a stress orthogonal to a strain perfectly concurrent with the other stress.

noun. Relatively to an infinitesimal homogeneous strain, a stress such that, if the strain be so compounded with a rotation as to produce a pure strain, the motions of the particles upon the surface of a sphere relatively to its center represent in magnitude and direction the components of the stress.

noun. Synonyms Accent, etc. See emphasis.

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

transitive verb. To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.

transitive verb. To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.

transitive verb. To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.

noun. Distress.

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

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

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

noun. unusual exertion of the voice.

noun. constraint imposed by continued bad weather.

noun. to attach great importance to; to emphasize.

noun. to strain.

"As anyone knows who has had a treadmill stress test, the whole idea is to ’stress’ the cardiovascular system of the person being tested."

anticlastic stress  axis of a stress  center of stress  close stress  composition of stresses  

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Alexandrine  accent  accent  accentuate  accentuation  

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