knockdown vs stress

knockdown

noun
  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

stress

noun
  • distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained. 

  • Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written). 

  • A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence. 

  • Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions. 

  • Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. 

  • A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism. 

  • The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ. 

  • Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body. 

  • The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch. 

verb
  • To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain. 

  • To emphasise (words in speaking). 

  • To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion. 

  • To emphasise (a syllable of a word). 

  • To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal). 

  • To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated. 

How often have the words knockdown and stress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )