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Noun stress has 5 senses
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- stress, focus - special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
--4 is a kind of emphasis, accent
- 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
Verb stress has 3 senses
- 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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- 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
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- try, strain, stress - test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
--3 is one way to afflict
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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