stress

v. subject to stress or strain; emphasize, accentuate

n. emphasis, importance; accent, emphasis placed on a syllable of a word; strain, tension, pressure; condition caused by physical or emotional strain

Stress can relate to:Stress (physics)Tensile stressCompressive stressShear stressNormal stressExtensional stress term for normal stress in rheologyLongitudinal stress term for normal stress in acoustics Flexural stressPressureYield stress in mechanical engineering and rheologyStress (medicine), medical or psychological stress; types of medical stress include:Chronic stressEustressHeat StressStress (game), a card game.Stress management, techniques for coping with personal stressStress (linguistics) in linguistics (phonology)Beat (music), stressed and unstressed musical beatsLink stress, see network theoryOverpopulation, or population stressMoisture stress or plant stress is the result of depriving a plant of waterStress (band), early '80s melodic rock band from San DiegoStress (Neo-Psychedelic band), from the late 1980sCritical Incident Stress Management
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Noun
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"
(synonym) emphasis, accent
(hypernym) prosody, inflection
(hyponym) accentuation
(derivation) accent, accentuate
2. (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
(synonym) tension, tenseness
(hypernym) strain, mental strain, nervous strain
(hyponym) yips
(derivation) try, strain
(classification) psychology, psychological science
3. (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"
(hypernym) force
(hyponym) tension
(classification) physics, physical science, natural philosophy
4. special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
(synonym) focus
(hypernym) emphasis, accent
(derivation) emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
5. 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
(synonym) strain
(hypernym) difficulty
(derivation) try, strain
Verb
1. to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
(synonym) emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
(hypernym) express, show, evince
(hyponym) background, play down, downplay
(derivation) focus
2. put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
(synonym) accent, accentuate
(hypernym) pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
(derivation) emphasis, accent
3. test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
(synonym) try, strain
(hypernym) afflict
(hyponym) rack
(derivation) strain

n. stress, mental tension

n. (new spell.=Stress) stress, mental tension

v. stress, emphasize, accentuate, put under pressure