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- [stres]
- /strɛs/
- /stres/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stres]
- /strɛs/
Definitions of stress word
- noun stress importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth. 1
- noun stress Phonetics. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of special effort in utterance. 1
- noun stress Prosody. accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern; beat. 1
- noun stress emphasis in melody, rhythm, etc.; beat. 1
- noun stress the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain. 1
- noun stress Mechanics. the action on a body of any system of balanced forces whereby strain or deformation results. the amount of stress, usually measured in pounds per square inch or in pascals. a load, force, or system of forces producing a strain. the internal resistance or reaction of an elastic body to the external forces applied to it. the ratio of force to area. See also strain1 (def 23), shear (def 19), torsion (def 3). 1
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Origin of stress
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; (noun) Middle English stresse, aphetic variant of distresse distress; (v.) derivative of the noun
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Parts of speech for Stress
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
stress popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
stress usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for stress
verb stress
- accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
- accentuate — To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable.
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- assert — If someone asserts a fact or belief, they state it firmly.
- be-thought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
noun stress
- accentuation — an act or instance of accentuating.
- adrenaline — a hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress and increases heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure, and raises the blood levels of glucose and lipids. It is extracted from animals or synthesized for such medical uses as the treatment of asthma. Chemical name: aminohydroxyphenylpropionic acid; formula: C9H13NO3
- alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
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