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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /stɹeɪ̯n/

Lyhenteet ja supistumat

  • (mikrobiologia) str

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  2. (obsolete) Treasure.
  3. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  4. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  5. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
  6. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  7. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
  8. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  9. A tendency or disposition.
  10. (obsolete) The track of a deer.
  11. (literary) 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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
  12. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  13. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
  14. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).

Verbit

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

Esimerkit

  • to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
  • I strained to hear everything I could through the keyhole in the door.
  • I was exercising too much yesterday, and I strained a muscle.
  • I'll have to strain the spinach before putting it in the frying pan.
  • stress and strain of a material
  • You'll have to excuse him. He's been under quite a strain lately.
  • When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.
  • 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.
  • he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
  • 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.
  • Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
  • to strain a petition or invitation
  • The quality of mercy is not strained.
  • He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained.
  • water straining through a sandy soil
  • There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
  • He is of a noble strain.
  • Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
  • They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
  • He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
  • Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
  • To build his fortune I will strain a little.
  • The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  • Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
  • to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship
  • So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd, and colled tenderly [...].
  • Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
  • the common strain
  • They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  • Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
  • There is a strain of madness in her family.
  • With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektistrainedImperfektistrained
Partisiipin preesensstrainingMonikkostrains
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensstrainsYksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensstraineth (vanhahtava)

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