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straining::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | distortion, overrefinement, torture, twisting |
| Type of | misrepresentation, falsification |
Examples of straining
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Farmers have the ability to take on more debt without straining, if they choose.
From the kansas.com
They're stressing over $4 a gallon gas prices that are straining family budgets.
From the kentucky.com
We scan the horizon, straining eyes and ears for the first hint of goose flight.
From the fresnobee.com
It's squished and straining and someone brought a spiced meat sandwich on board.
From the denverpost.com
Cook bends over so far to be fair that you can almost feel the sinews straining.
From the newsobserver.com
The 108-acre Vatican city-state is straining to cope with the crush of humanity.
From the timesunion.com
To the point where it is straining at gnats to try and draw conclusions from it.
From the economist.com
Out in the hallway I could hear my mother straining for something to talk about.
From the usatoday.com
Overall, the first issue seems a bit sophomoric in its straining for sensuality.
From the time.com
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- Strive: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
- Stress: difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson
- Try: test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
- Tune: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
- Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much"
- In biology, a strain is a low-level taxonomic rank used in three related ways.
- In chemistry, a molecule experiences strain when its chemical structure undergoes some stress which raises its internal energy in comparison to a strain-free reference compound. The internal energy of a molecule consists of all the energy stored within it. ...
- In materials science, deformation is a change in the shape or size of an object due to an applied force. This can be a result of tensile (pulling) forces, compressive (pushing) forces, shear, bending or torsion (twisting). Deformation is often described as strain.
