number vs strain

number

noun
  • A large amount of damage 

  • A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items. 

  • Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection. 

  • An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one. 

  • An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. 

  • A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer. 

  • Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner. 

  • Quantity. 

  • A person. 

  • A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance. 

  • A telephone number. 

  • An abstract entity used to describe quantity. 

  • A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show. 

  • A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. 

verb
  • To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items). 

  • To total or count; to amount to. 

strain

noun
  • An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain. 

  • The act of straining, or the state of being strained. 

  • Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened. 

  • 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 kind or sort (of person etc.). 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

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