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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:
- what stress does to the body
- what stresses you out
- what stresses people out
- what stress can cause
- what stress does to your brain
- what stress causes normal faults
- what stress causes strike slip faults
- what stresses cats out
grief
English
Etymology
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
Noun
grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)
- Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
- Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
- (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
Derived terms
- give someone grief
Translations
Verb
grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)
- (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. [from late 1990s]
Usage notes
- This verb is most commonly found in the gerund-participle griefing and the derived noun griefer.
Related terms
- grievance
- grieve
- grievous
Further reading
- grief on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- griefer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- grief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- grief in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- grief at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch grief, from Old French grief, from Vulgar Latin *grevis, from Latin gravis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rif/
- Hyphenation: grief
- Rhymes: -if
Noun
grief f (plural grieven, diminutive griefje n)
- (chiefly in the plural) grievance, complaint, bone to pick, issue
Derived terms
- grieven
French
Etymology
From Old French grief, from Vulgar Latin grevis (influenced by its antonym, levis), from Latin gravis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?us. Doublet of grave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i.j?f/
Adjective
grief (feminine singular griève, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grièves)
- (archaic, literary) grievous
Derived terms
- grièvement
Noun
grief m (plural griefs)
- complaint
- grief
- grievance (formal complaint filed with an authority)
Further reading
- “grief” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- figer
Ladin
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *grevis, from Latin gravis.
Adjective
grief m (feminine singular grieva, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grieves)
- arduous
- difficult
- steep
Old French
Alternative forms
- gref (typically Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Probably from the verb grever, or from Vulgar Latin grevis (influenced by its antonym, levis), from Latin gravis.
Noun
grief m (oblique plural griés, nominative singular griés, nominative plural grief)
- pain; anguish; suffering
Descendants
- French: grief
- ? Middle Dutch: grief
- Dutch: grief
- ? Middle English: greef, gref
- English: grief
Adjective
grief m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grieve)
- sad
Descendants
- French: grief (archaic, literary)
grief From the web:
- what grief means
- what grief looks like
- what grief does to your body
- what grief feels like
- what grief does to the brain
- what grief really looks like
- what grief does to a person
- what grief has taught me
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