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.
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.
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.
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.
A form of lyric poem used by troubadours in Provençal in which two voices present different sides of an argument, in alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines with identical structure.