hoop snake | any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop |
basket basketball hoop hoop | horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball |
hoop ring | a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling, there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse |
hoop | a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt |
hula-hoop | plaything consisting of a tubular plastic hoop for swinging around the hips |
tambour embroidery frame embroidery hoop | a frame made of two hoops, used for embroidering |
wicket hoop | a small arch used as croquet equipment |
stress test | a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress |
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 |
hoop pine Moreton Bay pine Araucaria cunninghamii | pine of Australia and New Guinea, yields a valuable light even-textured wood |
black ash basket ash brown ash hoop ash Fraxinus nigra | vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood, leaves turn gold in autumn |
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 |
hoop | bind or fasten with a hoop, hoop vats |
try strain stress | test the limits of, You are trying my patience! |
circumferential | lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts, circumferential highways around cities |
boastful braggart(a) bragging(a) braggy big cock-a-hoop crowing self-aggrandizing self-aggrandising | exhibiting self-importance, big talk |