Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - stress
Stress
stress
n. & v. --n. 1 a pressure or tension exerted on a material object. b a quantity measuring this. 2 a demand on physical or mental energy. b distress caused by this (suffering from stress). 3 a emphasis (the stress was on the need for success). b accentuation; emphasis laid on a syllable or word. c an accent, esp. the principal one in a word (the stress is on the first syllable). 4 Mech. force per unit area exerted between contiguous bodies or parts of a body. --v.tr. 1 lay stress on; emphasize. 2 subject to mechanical or physical or mental stress. Phrases and idioms lay stress on indicate as important. stress disease a disease resulting from continuous mental stress. Derivatives stressless adj. Etymology: ME f. DISTRESS, or partly f. OF estresse narrowness, oppression, ult. f. L strictus STRICT
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I. noun see: di~ Date: 14th century constraining force or influence: as, a force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body or body part, the deformation caused in a body by such a force, a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation, a state resulting from a ~, strain, pressure , emphasis, weight , intense effort or exertion, intensity of utterance given to a speech sound, syllable, or word producing relative loudness, 5. relative force or prominence of sound in verse, a syllable having relative force or prominence, accent 6a, II. verb Date: 1545 transitive verb to subject to physical or psychological ~ , to subject to phonetic ~ ; accent, to lay ~ on ; emphasize , intransitive verb to feel ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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