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Etymology 1

Old English strēon, ġestrēon, from Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *streu ( cognate with Latin strues (“‘heap’”)

Noun

Singular strain

Plural strains

strain (plural strains)

  1. (obsolete) Treasure.
  2. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  3. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
  4. a tune, melody
  5. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
    They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  6. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
    There is a strain of madness in her family.
  7. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
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Translations
Race; stock; generation; descent; family
  • Finnish: lajike (of plants), kanta (of virii/bacteria)
  • Polish: szczep m.
  • Russian: порода ru(ru) (poróda) f. (animals), сорт ru(ru) (sort) m. (plants), штамм ru(ru) (štámm) m. (viruses)
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition
variant of living species
  • Czech: kmen cs(cs) m.
Rank; a sort
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Etymology 2

Old French estreindre ( > French étreindre (“‘to grip’”)), from Latin stringere (“‘to draw tight together, to tie’”).

Noun

Singular strain

Plural uncountable

strain (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) (engineering) The amount by which a material deforms under stress or force, given as a ratio of the deformation to the initial dimension of the material and typically symbolised by ε is termed the engineering strain. The true strain is defined as the natural logarithm of the ratio of the final dimension to the initial dimension.

Verb

Infinitive to strain

Third person singular strains

Simple past strained

Past participle strained

Present participle straining

to strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)

  1. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch too far.
    Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
  2. To apply a force or forces to
    Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
  3. To tighten the strings of a musical instrument; to uplift one’s voice
  4. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
Translations
to stretch too far
  • Finnish: venäyttää
  • Italian: slogare it(it)
  • Spanish: elongar
to apply a force
  • Korean: 당기다 (danggida)
to tighten the strings
  • Finnish: kiristää fi(fi)
  • Korean: 당기다 (danggida), 켕기다 (kenggida)
to separate
  • Korean: 거르다 (georeuda)
  • Spanish: colar es(es), tamizar es(es)

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