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- English Word Stress Definition Distress.
- English Word Stress Definition Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
- English Word Stress Definition The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
- English Word Stress Definition Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
- English Word Stress Definition Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- English Word Stress Definition To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
- English Word Stress Definition To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
- English Word Stressful Definition Having much stress.
- English Word Stretch Definition To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
- English Word Stretch Definition To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
- English Word Stretch Definition To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
- English Word Stretch Definition To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
- English Word Stretch Definition To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
- English Word Stretch Definition To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
- English Word Stretch Definition To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
- English Word Stretch Definition To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
- English Word Stretch Definition To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
- English Word Stretch Definition To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
- English Word Stretch Definition To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
- English Word Stretch Definition Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.