[syn: try, strain, stress]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lateral \Lat"er*al\, a. [L. lateralis, fr. latus, lateris, side:
cf. F. lat['e]ral.]
1. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a
house; the lateral branches of a tree.
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2. (Anat.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from
the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.
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3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.
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Lateral cleavage (Crystallog.), cleavage parallel to the
lateral planes.
Lateral equation (Math.), an equation of the first degree.
[Obs.]
Lateral line (Anat.), in fishes, a line of sensory organs
along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct
line of color.
Lateral pressure or stress (Mech.), a pressure or stress
at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; --
distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress.
Lateral strength (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency
to fracture arising from lateral pressure.
Lateral system (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal
braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral
stiffness is secured.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stress \Stress\, n. [Abbrev. fr. distress; or cf. OF. estrecier
to press, pinch, (assumed) LL. strictiare, fr. L. strictus.
See Distress.]
1. Distress. [Obs.]
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Sad hersal of his heavy stress. --Spenser.
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2. Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things;
except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight;
significance.
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The faculties of the mind are improved by exercise,
yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their
strength. --Locke.
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A body may as well lay too little as too much stress
upon a dream. --L'Estrange.
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3. (Mech. & Physics) The force, or combination of forces,
which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or
manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and
taking specific names according to its direction, or mode
of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear
or tangential stress. --Rankine.
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Stress is the mutual action between portions of
matter. --Clerk
Maxwell.
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4. (Pron.) Force of utterance expended upon words or
syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in
accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See
Guide to pronunciation, [sect][sect] 31-35.
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5. (Scots Law) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the
thing distrained.
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Stress of voice, unusual exertion of the voice.
Stress of weather, constraint imposed by continued bad
weather; as, to be driven back to port by stress of
weather.
To lay stress upon, to attach great importance to; to
emphasize. "Consider how great a stress is laid upon this
duty." --Atterbury.
To put stress upon, or To put to a stress, to strain.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stress \Stress\ (str[e^]s), v. t.
1. To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
[R.] --Spenser.
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2. To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
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3. To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.
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4. To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stress
n 1: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
(especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the
stress on the wrong syllable" [syn: stress, emphasis,
accent]
2: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or
suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension";
"stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: tension, tenseness,
stress]
3: special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more
on accuracy than on speed" [syn: stress, focus]
4: 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 [syn: stress, strain]
5: (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the
intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by
units of area"
v 1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes
exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress,
emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent,
accentuate]
2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent
the last syllable of each word" [syn: stress, accent,
accentuate]
3: test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" [syn:
try, strain, stress]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
309 Moby Thesaurus words for "stress":
Alexandrine, accent, accentuate, accentuation, ache, aching,
adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation,
ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, amphibrach, amphimacer,
anacrusis, anapest, anguish, annoyance, antispast, anxiety, arsis,
assault, bacchius, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat, belabor, blight,
blow, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bummer, bump, bump against,
bunt, burden, butt, butt against, cadence, caesura, care,
catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, clutch, colon, compulsion,
concern, concernment, conflict, consequence, consequentiality,
consideration, constraint, counterpoint, cram, cramp, cretic,
crisis, cross, crowd, crunch, curse, cut, dactyl,
dactylic hexameter, decompensation, diaeresis, difficulties,
difficulty, dig, dimeter, dipody, distress, disturb, dochmiac,
dolor, downer, drive, dwell on, elbow, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
elegiac pentameter, emergency, emotional shock, emphasis,
emphasize, epitrite, excellence, exigency, external frustration,
feature, feminine caesura, focus on, foot, force, forcefulness,
frustration, give emphasis to, goad, grief, harass, hard knocks,
hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harp on, haul, head,
heave, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody,
high order, high pressure, high rank, highlight, hurt, hurtle,
hustle, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, imperativeness,
import, importance, impulse, impulsion, injury, insistence,
interest, ionic, irk, irritation, italicize, jab, jam, jingle, jog,
joggle, jolt, jostle, lesion, level of stress, lilt, mark,
masculine caesura, materiality, measure, mental shock,
mental strain, merit, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot,
metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, moment,
mora, movement, nasty blow, nervous strain, nervous tension, note,
nudge, numbers, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overexert,
overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress,
overtax, overtaxing, paeon, pain, pang, paramountcy, passion,
pentameter, pentapody, period, pile drive, pinch,
place emphasis on, play up, plight, point up, poke, precedence,
predicament, preeminence, press, pressure, primacy, primary stress,
priority, proceleusmatic, prod, prominence, prosodics, prosody,
psychological stress, pull, punch, punctuate, push, pyrrhic,
quantity, rack, ram, ram down, rash impulse, rattle, rhythm,
rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, rigor, rub in, run,
run against, sea of troubles, secondary stress, self-importance,
shake, shock, shoulder, shove, significance, sore, sore spot,
spasm, spondee, spotlight, sprung rhythm, star, strain,
strain every nerve, straining, stress accent, stress and strain,
stress of life, stress pattern, stressfulness, stretch, stroke,
suffering, superiority, supremacy, sweat blood, swing, syzygy,
tamp, tautness, tax, taxing, tender spot, tense, tenseness,
tension, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis,
throes, thrust, torque, torsion, trauma, traumatism, trial,
tribrach, tribulation, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
trouble, troubles, try, tug, underline, underscore, upset, urge,
urgency, vale of tears, value, vicissitude, weak stress, weight,
worry, worth, wound, wrench
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
STRESS
STRuctual Engineering Systems Solver.
A system for structural analysis problems in Civil
Engineering. STRESS was superseded by STRUDL.
["STRESS: A User's Manual", S.J. Fenves et al, MIT Press
1964].
[Sammet 1969, p. 612].
(1995-01-31)