stress

Significat (anglès)

1. A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
2. Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
3. 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.
4. Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
5. Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
6. A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
7. The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
8. Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
9. (obsolete) Obsolete form of distress.
10. distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

accent

emphasize

strech

put emphasis upon

important point

be stretched tight

mental strain

call attention to

tightness of the chest

ton

tonality

general adaptation syndrome

tonic accent

have a boner

word accent

word stress

worry

alert to

nervous strain

printing shop

stressed point

serious consideration

lay stress on

emphasizing one’s speech

fatigue

afflict

press one’s point

abiotic stress

biotic stress

concentrate on

physical stress factors

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stɹɛs/

From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”). In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.

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