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clan
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæn/
- Rhymes: -æn
Noun
clan (plural clans)
- (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
- Coordinate term: lineage
- Hyponym: descent group
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
Derived terms
- clannish
- matriclan
- patriclan
Descendants
- ? Catalan: clan
- ? Dutch: clan
- ? French: clan
- ? Galician: clan
- ? German: Clan
- ? Italian: clan
- ? Portuguese: clan, clã
- ? Spanish: clan
Translations
Anagrams
- Lanc, NLCA, NaCl
Catalan
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /kl?n/
- Hyphenation: clan
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)
- clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
- (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan
Descendants
- Afrikaans: clan
- ? Indonesian: klan
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, Scottish Gaelic clann, ultimately from Latin planta, and therefore a doublet of plante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl??/
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Further reading
- “clan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Synonyms
- (clan): tribo
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan.
Noun
clan m (invariable)
- clan
- team
- gang
Portuguese
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- Alternative spelling of clã
Romanian
Etymology
From French clan.
Noun
clan n (plural clanuri)
- clan
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan. Doublet of planta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klan/, [?klãn]
Noun
clan m (plural clanes)
- clan
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strain
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?e??n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English str?on, ?estr?on (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streun? (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English str?nd (“race; stock”), from str?onan, str?nan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).
Noun
strain (plural strains)
- (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- (figuratively) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- Synonyms: propensity, proneness
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which being propogated, spoil the strain of a nation.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- Synonyms: theme, motive, manner, style
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- (obsolete) Treasure.
- (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
Translations
Related terms
- strew
Etymology 2
From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringere (“to draw tight together, to tie”).
Verb
strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)
- (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd, and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- "Farewell!"—the mother strained her child to her heart again, and again put her from her, to embrace her more closely.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship
- Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- 1641, John Denham, The Sophy
- [He] Still talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forc'd and strained.
- 1641, John Denham, The Sophy
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- to strain a petition or invitation
- (transitive) hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
Derived terms
- strain every nerve
Translations
Noun
strain (countable and uncountable, plural strains)
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183:
- If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching ...
- 2004, Sanjay Shrivastava, Medical Device Materials: Proceedings from the Materials & Processes for Medical Devices Conference 2003, 8-10 September 2003, Anaheim, California, ASM International (?ISBN), page 176:
- Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the influence of strain on the corrosion resistance of passivated Nitinol and stainless steel implant materials. Materials and Methods Nitinol (50.8%at. Ni) wire (NDC, Fremont, CA) and 316L stainless ...
- 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183:
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- (obsolete) The track of a deer.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
Derived terms
- breaking strain
Translations
Related terms
- stress
- strict
- stringent
Etymology 3
From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English str?onan, str?enan, str?nan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-Germanic *striunijan? (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”).
Verb
strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)
- (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
Anagrams
- Sartin, Tarins, Trains, atrins, instar, santir, sartin, starin', tairns, tarins, trains
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