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 |
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 |
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 |
dead metaphor frozen metaphor | a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') |
frozen food frozen foods | food preserved by freezing |
frozen dessert | any of various desserts prepared by freezing |
frozen yogurt | a soft frozen dessert of sweetened flavored yogurt |
frozen pudding | a chilled dessert consisting of a mixture of custard and nuts and (sometimes) liquor |
frozen custard soft ice cream | dessert resembling ice cream but with a boiled custard base |
frozen orange juice orange-juice concentrate | orange juice that has been concentrated and frozen |
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 |
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! |
fixed frozen | incapable of being changed or moved or undone, e.g. frozen prices, living on fixed incomes |
frozen | not convertible to cash, frozen assets |
flash-frozen quick-frozen frozen | (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value, frozen foods |
frozen | turned into ice, affected by freezing or by long and severe cold, the frozen North, frozen pipes, children skating on a frozen brook |
frigid frosty frozen glacial icy wintry | devoid of warmth and cordiality, expressive of unfriendliness or disdain, a frigid greeting, got a frosty reception, a frozen look on their faces, a glacial handshake, icy stare, wintry smile |
frozen | not thawed |
frozen(p) rooted(p) stock-still | absolutely still, frozen with horror, they stood rooted in astonishment |