strain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: strains
Etymology: From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”).
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.
ref: 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
text: If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching ...
ref: 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183
text: Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the influence of strain on the corrosion resistance of passivated Nitinol and stainless steel implant materials. Materials and Methods Nitinol (50.8%at. Ni) wire (NDC, Fremont, CA) and 316L stainless ...
ref: 2004, Sanjay Shrivastava, Medical Device Materials: Proceedings from the Materials & Processes for Medical Devices Conference 2003, 8-10 September 2003, Anaheim, California, ASM International, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
examples: text: he jumped up with a strain
text: the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
glosses: A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
examples: text: They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 162:
text: Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3-0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
examples: text: Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
examples: text: When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 145:
glosses: The track of a deer.
Derived terms: breaking strain
eyestrain
multistrain
oblique strain
repetitive strain injury
strain burst
strain energy
strain gauge
strain hardening
strain insulator
strain rate
strain relief
tensile strain
transannular strain
van der Waals strain
yield strain
Related terms: stress
strict
stringent