Strain vs. Pressure

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;

Pressurenoun

A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

Pressurenoun

A contrasting force or impulse of any kind

Pressurenoun

Distress.

Pressurenoun

Urgency

Pressurenoun

(obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.

Pressurenoun

(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.

Pressureverb

(transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

Pressurenoun

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

Pressurenoun

A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

Pressurenoun

Affliction; distress; grievance.

Pressurenoun

Urgency; as, the pressure of business.

Pressurenoun

Impression; stamp; character impressed.

Pressurenoun

The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the amount upon a unit's area.

Pressurenoun

Electro-motive force.

Pressurenoun

the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit);

Pressurenoun

a force that compels;

Pressurenoun

the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure;

Pressurenoun

the state of urgently demanding notice or attention;

Pressurenoun

the somatic sensation of pressure;

Pressurenoun

an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress

Pressureverb

to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :

Pressureverb

exert pressure on someone through threats

Pressurenoun

continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it

Pressurenoun

the force per unit area exerted by a fluid against a surface with which it is in contact

Pressurenoun

the use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something

Pressurenoun

the influence or effect of someone or something

Pressurenoun

a sense of stressful urgency caused by having too many demands on one's time or resources

Pressureverb

attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something

Pressure

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Gauge pressure (also spelled gage pressure) is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure.