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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
stress From the web:
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- what stresses you out
- what stresses people out
- what stress can cause
- what stress does to your brain
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coercion
English
Etymology
From Old French cohercion, from Latin coerciti? (“magisterial coercion”), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arce? (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko?????n/, /ko?????n/
Noun
coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)
- (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
Antonyms
- noncoercion
Hyponyms
- type coercion
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Trivia
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.
References
- coercion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “coercion” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- coercion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- coercion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- criocone
coercion From the web:
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- coercion what does it mean
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