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Strain
a.
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To squeeze; to press closely.
Strain
a.
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To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
Strain
a.
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To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
Strain
a.
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To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
Strain
v. i.
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To make violent efforts.
Strain
v. i.
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To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
Strain
n.
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The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Strain
n.
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A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
Strain
n.
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A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
Strain
n.
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A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
Strain
n.
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Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.
Strain
n.
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Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
Strainable
a.
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Capable of being strained.
Strainable
a.
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Violent in action.
Strainably
adv.
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Violently.
Strained
a.
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Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.
Strained
a.
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Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
Strainer
n.
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One who strains.
Strainer
n.
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That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
Straining
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a. & n. from Strain.
Straint
n.
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Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.
Strait
a.
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A variant of Straight.
Strait
superl.
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Narrow; not broad.
Strait
superl.
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Tight; close; closely fitting.
Strait
superl.
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Close; intimate; near; familiar.
Strait
superl.
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Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
Strait
superl.
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Difficult; distressful; straited.
Strait
superl.
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Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
Strait
adv.
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Strictly; rigorously.
Straits
pl.
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of Strait