strain

to become stretched or to experience pressure, or to make something do or experience this: I've put on such a lot of weight recently - this dress is straining at the seams. I strained a muscle in my back playing squash.

idiom. : having to do too much, dealing with a difficult problem, etc. She has been under (a lot of) strain lately. He is holding up under the strain. He cracked/collapsed/buckled under the strain.

an uneasy psychological state. difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension. “she endured the stresses and strains of life” synonyms: stress. type of: difficulty.

A device used in marches and piano rags to introduce a contrast in style and break the flow of the composition with a loud and intense musical statement. Also known as a break-up strain, it is normally used to create a break between the repeats of the trio.

Strain effects arise from the distortion of bond or torsional angles. The strain energy V can be expressed as in Eq. (11) or Eq. (12), where θ0 is the optimum angle, of minimum energy.

Stress and strain are two of the most important concepts in materials science and engineering. Stress refers to the force applied to a material per unit area, while strain is a deformation or change in the shape of the material that results from the applied force.

to make the greatest possible effort: She's straining every nerve to get the work finished on time. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

Strain-specific terpenes contain no artificial flavorings. Strain-specific terpenes will taste like the cannabis strain, not the food or fruit it's named after. For example, Chocolate Cookies tastes like hash, spice, and coffee, just like the cannabis strain. It doesn't taste sugary sweet and chocolatey.

Name(s): Emotional stress. Emotional distress. Emotional stress is indicated under conditions of anger, fear, frustration, sadness, betrayal and bereavement.

The First Strain of a march is the main melody. Being the main idea usually means that people recognize the march by this first melody. The First Strain is usually eight or sixteen measures long with four measure phrases. These short, eight or sixteen measures want to be heard again.

The Three Noble Strains of Irish Music

• Goltraí “dirges or laments”, from gol- (“weeping, crying”) + -traí The sorrow strain caused people to weep.
• Geantraí “joy music”, from gean- (“smile, affection”) + -traí The joy strain incited merriment.
• Suantraí “lullaby”, from suan- (“sleep, slumber”) + -traí

In biology terms, a strain is a genetic variant of a species. Plant strains are variations of the same species that share a common ancestor. A marijuana strain is the type of classification that determines the plant's chemical makeup and physical appearance, along with its potential medical effects.