One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
A primary key.
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
A kind or sort (of person etc.).
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
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, etc.
A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To urge with importunity; to press.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.