Sprain vs. Strain

Sprainverb

To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation

Sprainnoun

The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining

Sprainverb

To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.

Sprainnoun

The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.

Sprainnoun

a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments

Sprainverb

twist suddenly so as to sprain;

Sprain

A sprain, also known as a torn ligament, is the stretching or tearing of ligaments within a joint, often caused by an injury abruptly forcing the joint beyond its functional range of motion. Ligaments are tough, inelastic fibers made of collagen that connect two or more bones to form a joint and are important for joint stability and proprioception, which is the body's sense of limb position and movement.

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;