strain

(Inglese)

Noun

1. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
2. A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
3. (figuratively) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
4. 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, etc.
5. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
6. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
7. (obsolete) Treasure.
8. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hold tightly, to clasp.
2. (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
3. (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
4. (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
5. (ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
6. (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
7. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
8. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
9. (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
10. (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
11. (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

Verb

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

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/stɹeɪn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: streen

Ereditato da inglese antico: strēon

Affine Old Saxon: gistriuni

Affine tedesco antico alto: gistriuni

Affine latino: strues

Ereditato da inglese antico: strȳnd

Affine olandese: struinen

Ereditato da inglese medio: straynen

Affine francese: étreindre

In summary

From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

Concetti

tensione

caricare

colare

sforzo

sforzare

forzare

fatica

filtrare

scolare

tendere

razza

deformare

setacciare

passare

stress

stringere

sforzarsi

stirare

sollecitazione

canto

🎶

contrarre

strappo

slogare

testare

tono

vagliare

sgocciolare

tirare

serrare

ceppo

stirare troppo

premere

melodia

saggiare

irrigidire

allungare

aria

cantare

deformazione

forma

separare

stile

tenore

abburattare

affaticarsi

aggravio

allungarsi

arrancare

cimentare

disposizione

sinonimi

filter

stress

tense

tension

stretch

sift

sieve

tighten

sprain

rack

effort

extend

exertion

tune

wind up

strech

struggle

squeeze

melody

stock

line

force

pull

pressure

distort

overwork

breed

melodic line

melodic phrase

drain

air

try

tautness

strive

tense up

filtrate

exert

be serious

be stern

draw

tone

percolate

bend

nisus

lineage

pains

mental strain

straining

filter out

screen

Traduzioni

filtrer

passer

anspannen

spannen

colar

spannen

uitrekken

napinać

tendre

tensar

anziehen

raidir

opwinden

nauwer aanhalen

souche