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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ
- (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).
- (Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
Verb
- To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
- To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- To emphasise (words in speaking).
- To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
Exempel
- Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
- Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
- “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
- I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.
- Stress is the emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
- Go easy on him, he’s been under a lot of stress lately.
- Stress is emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- Stress is externally applied to a body which cause internal stress and strain within the body.
- To stress is to apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- To stress is to emphasise (a syllable of a word).
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