fee splitting | payment (usually by doctors or lawyers) of part of the fee in return for the referral |
tensile strength | the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart |
stress test | a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress |
hairsplitting word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
stress mark | a mark indicating the stress on a syllable |
stress emphasis accent | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch), he put the stress on the wrong syllable |
word stress word accent | the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word |
sentence stress | the distribution of stresses within a sentence |
stress | (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body, the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area |
stress incontinence | urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining |
fatigue fracture stress fracture | fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury |
tension tenseness stress | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense, he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension, stress is a vasoconstrictor |
posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD | an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images |
stress strain | 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 |
stress focus | special emphasis attached to something, the stress was more on accuracy than on speed |
stress accent accentuate | put stress on, utter with an accent, In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word |
stress emphasize emphasise punctuate accent accentuate | to stress, single out as important, Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet |
try strain stress | test the limits of, You are trying my patience! |
rending ripping splitting | resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree, the tree split with a great ripping sound, heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward |
ductile malleable pliable pliant tensile tractile | capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out, ductile copper, malleable metals such as gold, they soaked the leather to made it pliable, pliant molten glass, made of highly tensile steel alloy |
tensile | of or relating to tension, tensile stress, tensile pull |