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strait
English
Alternative forms
- streight (obsolete)
- streit (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of string? (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
- Homophone: straight
Adjective
strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)
- (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, “Aholibah” in Poems and Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, p. 311,[1]
- Sweet oil was poured out on thy head
- And ran down like cool rain between
- The strait close locks it melted in.
- 1894, Ernest Dowson, “To One in Bedlam” in The Second Book of The Rhymers’ Club, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 35,[3]
- Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line
- His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,
- Pedant and pitiful.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, “Aholibah” in Poems and Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, p. 311,[1]
- (archaic) Righteous, strict.
- (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
- (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
- (obsolete) Difficult; distressful.
- 18th c., Thomas Secker, Sermons on Several Subjects, 2nd edition, 1771, Volume III, Sermon XI, p. 253,[4]
- But to make your strait Circumstances yet straiter, for the Sake of idle Gratifications, and distress yourselves in Necessaries, only to indulge in Trifles and Vanities, delicate Food, shewish Dress, ensnaring Diversions, is every Way wrong.
- 18th c., Thomas Secker, Sermons on Several Subjects, 2nd edition, 1771, Volume III, Sermon XI, p. 253,[4]
- (obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
Translations
Usage notes
The adjective is often confused with straight.
Derived terms
- straitjacket
- strait-laced
Noun
strait (plural straits)
- (geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
- A narrow pass, passage or street.
- A neck of land; an isthmus.
- (often in the plural) A difficult position.
- 1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,[5]
- […] let no man, who owns the Belief of a Providence, grow desperate or forlorn, under any Calamity or Strait whatsoever […]
- 1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,[5]
Derived terms
- dire straits
- Menai Strait
Translations
Verb
strait (third-person singular simple present straits, present participle straiting, simple past and past participle straited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: 1577, Volume 1, The Historie of Englande, p. 3,[6]
- After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […]
- 1658, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, London: Humphrey Moseley et al., p. 885,[7]
- The King, Duke of York, Prince Rupert and Maurice are still at Oxford closely surrounded by the Parliaments Forces, and the other not well resolving what course to take, all their Horse being about Faringdon, in expectation of the Lord Ashley with his Foot to joyn in a Body, if they be not prevented by Colonel Fleetwood and Rainsborough, straiting and allarming Oxford very often […]
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: 1577, Volume 1, The Historie of Englande, p. 3,[6]
- (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.
Adverb
strait (comparative straiter, superlative straitest)
- (obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
Further reading
- strait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Rattis, artist, atrist, ittars, star it, strati, traits
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stress
English
Etymology
From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distring? (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).
In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
stress (countable and uncountable, plural stresses)
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by ? or ?.
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- Obsolete form of distress.
- (Scotland, law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
Synonyms
- (phonetics): accent, emphasis
- (on words in speaking): emphasis
- (on a point): emphasis
Derived terms
- stress deafness
- stress-free, stressfree
- stressful
- stresswise
Translations
Verb
stress (third-person singular simple present stresses, present participle stressing, simple past and past participle stressed)
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
Synonyms
- (phonetics): emphasise/emphasize
- (on words in speaking): emphasise/emphasize
- (on a point): emphasise/emphasize, underline
Derived terms
- de-stress, destress
- stressed
- stress out
Translations
References
Related terms
- strain
- strait
- strict
- stringent
- stringency
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sd???s], [?sd??as], [?sd???s]
Noun
stress c or n (singular definite stressen or stresset, not used in plural)
- stress
Derived terms
- stresse (verb)
- stresset (adjective)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
stress m (uncountable)
- stress
Derived terms
- stressen (“to be stressed”)
- stresskip
- stresskonijn
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??s/
Noun
stress m (uncountable)
- stress (emotional pressure)
Derived terms
- stresser
Further reading
- “stress” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str?s?/
- Rhymes: -?s?
Noun
stress n (genitive singular stress, no plural)
- stress
Declension
Related terms
- stressa
- stressaður
Indonesian
Noun
stress (first-person possessive stressku, second-person possessive stressmu, third-person possessive stressnya)
- Nonstandard spelling of stres.
Adjective
stress (plural stress-stress)
- Nonstandard spelling of stres.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Noun
stress m (invariable)
- stress
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Verb
stress
- imperative of stresse
Portuguese
Noun
stress m (plural stresses)
- Alternative form of estresse
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?t?es/, [es?t??es]
Noun
stress m (plural stresses)
- stress
- Synonym: estrés
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stress.
Noun
stress c (uncountable)
- stress
Declension
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