song strain | the act of singing, with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates |
strain straining | an intense or violent exertion |
striving nisus pains strain | an effortful attempt to attain a goal |
basal body temperature method of family planning basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
superbug Bemisia tabaci poinsettia strain | a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias |
cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
strain gauge strain gage | a gauge for measuring strain in a surface |
temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) |
absolute temperature | temperature measured on the absolute scale |
Curie temperature Curie point | the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic |
room temperature | the normal temperature of room in which people live |
basal body temperature basal temperature | body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything |
body temperature blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
coldness cold low temperature frigidity frigidness | the absence of heat, the coldness made our breath visible, come in out of the cold, cold is a vasoconstrictor |
hotness heat high temperature | the presence of heat |
temperature | the somatic sensation of cold or heat |
tenor strain | the general meaning or substance of an utterance, although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument |
tune melody air strain melodic line line melodic phrase | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence, she was humming an air from Beethoven |
breed strain stock | a special variety of domesticated animals within a species, he experimented on a particular breed of white rats, he created a new strain of sheep |
form variant strain var. | (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups, a new strain of microorganisms |
strain | (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces |
cooling chilling temperature reduction | the process of becoming cooler, a falling temperature |
temperature change | a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes |
temperature unit | a unit of measurement for temperature |
standard temperature | exactly zero degrees centigrade |
temperature scale | a system of measuring temperature |
temperature gradient | change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude) |
strain | injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse), results in swelling and pain |
strain mental strain nervous strain | (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress, his responsibilities were a constant strain, the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him |
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 |
tense strain tense up | cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious, he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up |
deform distort strain | alter the shape of (something) by stress, His body was deformed by leprosy |
strive reach strain | to exert much effort or energy, straining our ears to hear |
strain extend | use to the utmost, exert vigorously or to full capacity, He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro, Don't strain your mind too much |
puree strain | rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender, puree the vegetables for the baby |
filter filtrate strain separate out filter out | remove by passing through a filter, filter out the impurities |
sift sieve strain | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements, sift the flour |
strain tense | become stretched or tense or taut, the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed, the rope strained when the weight was attached |
try strain stress | test the limits of, You are trying my patience! |