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,

Additional info about word: STRESS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRESS)

• Accent
• Stress
• rhythm
• pulsation
• beat
• emphasis

Related words: (words related to STRESS)

• 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.