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Stress
Found in thesaurus: prosody, inflection, nervous strain, mental strain, strain, force, emphasis, accent, difficulty, evince, express, show, sound out, enounce, enunciate, say, pronounce, articulate, afflict
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stress
v.
subject to stress or strain; emphasize, accentuate
n.
emphasis, importance; accent, emphasis placed on a syllable of a word; strain, tension, pressure; condition caused by physical or emotional strain
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Stress
Stress may refer to:
Sciences
- Stress (biology)
- Stress (linguistics)
- Stress (mechanics)
- Stress (psychological)
- Stress analysis, methods for computing mechanical stress
- Stress ball
- Stress management
- Stress measures, ways to quantify mechanical stress
- Abiotic stress
- Biotic stress
- Chronic stress
- Jury stress
- Minority stress
- Occupational stress
- Surgical stress
- Traumatic stress
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stress
Noun
1. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
(synonym) emphasis, accent
(hypernym) prosody, inflection
(hyponym) accentuation
(derivation) accent, accentuate
2. (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
(synonym) tension, tenseness
(hypernym) strain, mental strain, nervous strain
(hyponym) yips
(derivation) try, strain
(classification) psychology, psychological science
3. (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"
(hypernym) force
(hyponym) tension
(classification) physics, physical science, natural philosophy
4. special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
(synonym) focus
(hypernym) emphasis, accent
(derivation) emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
5. difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson
(synonym) strain
(hypernym) difficulty
(derivation) try, strain
Verb
1. to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
(synonym) emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
(hypernym) express, show, evince
(hyponym) background, play down, downplay
(derivation) focus
2. put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
(synonym) accent, accentuate
(hypernym) pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
(derivation) emphasis, accent
3. test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
(synonym) try, strain
(hypernym) afflict
(hyponym) rack
(derivation) strain
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Stress (der)
nm.
stress, mental tension
Streß (der)
nm.
(new spell.=Stress) stress, mental tension
stressen
v.
stress, emphasize, accentuate, put under pressure
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stress
nm.
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