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Word Meanings - STRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure,

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The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. Rankine. Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter. Clerk Maxwell. (more info) press, pinch, LL. strictiare, fr. L. strictus. See 1. Distress. Sad hersal of his heavy stress. Spenser. 2. Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance. The faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength. Locke. A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream. L'Estrange.

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  • RHYTHMICS
    The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.
  • ACCENTUALITY
    The quality of being accentual.
  • ACCENTUABLE
    Capable of being accented.
  • RHYTHMIC; RHYTHMICAL
    Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm DAy and night I worked my rhythmic thought. Mrs. Browning. Rhythmical accent. See Accent, n., 6 .
  • STRESS
    1. To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties. Spenser. 2. To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
  • PULSATION
    A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse. 2. A single beat or throb of a series. 3. A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
  • ACCENTOR
    One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
  • ACCENTUATION
    Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically
  • EMPHASIS
    A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent,
  • RHYTHMICALLY
    In a rhythmical manner.
  • RHYTHMUS
    Rhythm.
  • ACCENTLESS
    Without accent.
  • RHYTHMER
    One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter. One now scarce counted a rhythmer, formerly admitted for a poet. Fuller.
  • RHYTHMOMETER
    An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.
  • RHYTHMLESS
    Being without rhythm. Coleridge.
  • RHYTHM
    Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore 3. A division of lines into short portions by a regular
  • ACCENTUALLY
    In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
  • RHYTHMING
    Writing rhythm; verse making. "The rhythming monk." Fuller.
  • ACCENTUATE
    1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent.
  • ACCENT
    Etym: 1. To express the accent of ; to utter or to mark with accent. 2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
  • BACKSTRESS
    A female baker.
  • HUCKSTRESS
    A female huckster.
  • PROPULSATION
    The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. Bp. Hall.
  • SUGGESTRESS
    A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
  • IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
    A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
  • MISTRESS
    magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman!
  • SPINSTRESS
    A woman who spins. T. Brown.
  • SEMPSTRESS
    A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. Swift.
  • ARHIZAL; ARHIZOUS; ARHYTHMIC; ARHYTHMOUS
    See ARRHYTHMOUS
  • FOSTRESS
    A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. B. Jonson.
  • SEAMSTRESS
    A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
  • SEAMSTRESSY
    The business of a seamstress.
  • SCHOOLMISTRESS
    A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
  • ARRHYTHMIC; ARRHYTHMOUS
    Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.
  • DISTRESSING
    Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

 

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