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stress

 
Noun stress has 5 senses
  1. stress, emphasis, accent - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
    --1 is a kind of prosody, inflection
    --1 has particulars:
     accentuation; tonic accent, pitch accent; word stress, word accent; sentence stress
    Derived form: verb stress2
  2. tension, tenseness, stress - (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
    --2 is a kind of strain, mental strain, nervous strain; vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive
    --2 has particulars: yips; breaking point
    Derived form: verb stress3
  3. stress - (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"
    --3 is a kind of
    force
    --3 has particulars: tension; breaking point
  4. stress, focus - special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
    --4 is a kind of emphasis, accent
    Derived form: verb stress1
  5. stress, strain - difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson
    --5 is a kind of difficulty
    Derived form: verb stress3
Verb stress has 3 senses
  1. stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
    --1 is one way to express, show, evince
    Derived form: noun stress4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  2. stress, accent, accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
    --2 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
    Derived form: noun stress1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. try, strain, stress - test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
    --3 is one way to afflict
    Derived forms: noun stress5, noun stress2, noun stressor1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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