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 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.
The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
A rope or cable used in towing.
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.