Species vs. Strain

Speciesnoun

Type or kind. race.}}

Speciesnoun

A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.

Speciesnoun

(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below genus and above subspecies; a taxon at that rank.

Speciesnoun

(mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.

Speciesnoun

An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

Speciesnoun

(obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

Speciesnoun

Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

Speciesnoun

A public spectacle or exhibition.

Speciesnoun

(Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.

Speciesnoun

Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

Speciesnoun

A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

Speciesnoun

An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

Species

Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

Species

A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.

Species

In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

Species

A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

Species

Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

Species

A public spectacle or exhibition.

Species

A component part of a compound medicine; a simple.

Species

The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

Speciesnoun

(biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

Speciesnoun

a specific kind of something;

Speciesnoun

a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.

Speciesnoun

a group subordinate to a genus and containing individuals agreeing in some common attributes and called by a common name.

Speciesnoun

a kind or sort

Speciesnoun

used humorously to refer to people who share a characteristic or occupation

Speciesnoun

a particular kind of atom, molecule, ion, or particle

Speciesnoun

the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.

Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

Strainnoun

(obsolete) Treasure.

Strainnoun

(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

Strainnoun

(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.

Strainnoun

Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

Strainnoun

A tendency or disposition.

Strainnoun

(literary) 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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style

Strainnoun

(biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.

Strainnoun

(music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

Strainnoun

(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).

Strainnoun

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

Strainnoun

A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.

Strainnoun

An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

Strainnoun

A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

Strainnoun

(obsolete) The track of a deer.

Strainverb

(obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

Strainverb

(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.

Strainverb

To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

Strainverb

To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

Strainverb

To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.

Strainverb

To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.

Strainverb

To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.

Strainverb

(transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander

Strainverb

(intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.

Strainverb

To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

Strainverb

To urge with importunity; to press.

Strainnoun

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

Strainnoun

Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

Strainnoun

Rank; a sort.

Strainnoun

A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated.

Strainnoun

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

Strainnoun

A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.

Strainnoun

A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

Strainnoun

A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.

Strainnoun

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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.

Strainnoun

Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

Strainverb

To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.

Strainverb

To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.

Strainverb

To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.

Strainverb

To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.

Strainverb

To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.

Strainverb

To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.

Strainverb

To squeeze; to press closely.

Strainverb

To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

Strainverb

To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.

Strainverb

To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.

Strainverb

To make violent efforts.

Strainverb

To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.

Strainnoun

(physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces

Strainnoun

difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension;

Strainnoun

a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

Strainnoun

(psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress;

Strainnoun

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;

Strainnoun

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;

Strainnoun

a lineage or race of people

Strainnoun

injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain

Strainnoun

pervading note of an utterance;

Strainnoun

an effortful attempt to attain a goal

Strainnoun

an intense or violent exertion

Strainnoun

the act of singing;

Strainverb

to exert much effort or energy;

Strainverb

test the limits of;

Strainverb

use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity;

Strainverb

separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;

Strainverb

make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;

Strainverb

stretch or force to the limit;

Strainverb

remove by passing through a filter;

Strainverb

rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender;

Strainverb

alter the shape of (something) by stress;