Stress

stress
    n 1: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
         (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the
         stress on the wrong syllable" [syn: {stress}, {emphasis},
         {accent}]
    2: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or
       suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension";
       "stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: {tension}, {tenseness},
       {stress}]
    3: special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more
       on accuracy than on speed" [syn: {stress}, {focus}]
    4: 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 [syn: {stress}, {strain}]
    5: (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the
       intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by
       units of area"
    v 1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes
         exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: {stress},
         {emphasize}, {emphasise}, {punctuate}, {accent},
         {accentuate}]
    2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent
       the last syllable of each word" [syn: {stress}, {accent},
       {accentuate}]
    3: test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" [syn:
       {try}, {strain}, {stress}]
    

Lateral \Lat"er*al\, a. [L. lateralis, fr. latus, lateris, side:
   cf. F. lat['e]ral.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a
      house; the lateral branches of a tree.
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   2. (Anat.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from
      the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to {mesial}.
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   3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.
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   {Lateral cleavage} (Crystallog.), cleavage parallel to the
      lateral planes.

   {Lateral equation} (Math.), an equation of the first degree.
      [Obs.]

   {Lateral line} (Anat.), in fishes, a line of sensory organs
      along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct
      line of color.

   {Lateral pressure} or {stress} (Mech.), a pressure or stress
      at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; --
      distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress.

   {Lateral strength} (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency
      to fracture arising from lateral pressure.

   {Lateral system} (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal
      braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral
      stiffness is secured.
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Stress \Stress\, n. [Abbrev. fr. distress; or cf. OF. estrecier
   to press, pinch, (assumed) LL. strictiare, fr. L. strictus.
   See {Distress}.]
   1. Distress. [Obs.]
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            Sad hersal of his heavy stress.       --Spenser.
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   2. Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things;
      except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight;
      significance.
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            The faculties of the mind are improved by exercise,
            yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their
            strength.                             --Locke.
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            A body may as well lay too little as too much stress
            upon a dream.                         --L'Estrange.
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   3. (Mech. & Physics) The force, or combination of forces,
      which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or
      manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and
      taking specific names according to its direction, or mode
      of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear
      or tangential stress. --Rankine.
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            Stress is the mutual action between portions of
            matter.                               --Clerk
                                                  Maxwell.
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   4. (Pron.) Force of utterance expended upon words or
      syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in
      accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See
      {Guide to pronunciation}, [sect][sect] 31-35.
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   5. (Scots Law) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the
      thing distrained.
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   {Stress of voice}, unusual exertion of the voice.

   {Stress of weather}, constraint imposed by continued bad
      weather; as, to be driven back to port by stress of
      weather.

   {To lay stress upon}, to attach great importance to; to
      emphasize. "Consider how great a stress is laid upon this
      duty." --Atterbury.

   {To put stress upon}, or {To put to a stress}, to strain.
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Stress \Stress\ (str[e^]s), v. t.
   1. To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
      [R.] --Spenser.
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   2. To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
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   3. To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.
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   4. To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.
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STRESS

   STRuctual Engineering Systems Solver.

   A system for structural analysis problems in Civil
   Engineering.  STRESS was superseded by {STRUDL}.

   ["STRESS: A User's Manual", S.J. Fenves et al, MIT Press
   1964].

   [Sammet 1969, p. 612].

   (1995-01-31)
    

309 Moby Thesaurus words for "stress":
      Alexandrine, accent, accentuate, accentuation, ache, aching,
      adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation,
      ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, amphibrach, amphimacer,
      anacrusis, anapest, anguish, annoyance, antispast, anxiety, arsis,
      assault, bacchius, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat, belabor, blight,
      blow, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bummer, bump, bump against,
      bunt, burden, butt, butt against, cadence, caesura, care,
      catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, clutch, colon, compulsion,
      concern, concernment, conflict, consequence, consequentiality,
      consideration, constraint, counterpoint, cram, cramp, cretic,
      crisis, cross, crowd, crunch, curse, cut, dactyl,
      dactylic hexameter, decompensation, diaeresis, difficulties,
      difficulty, dig, dimeter, dipody, distress, disturb, dochmiac,
      dolor, downer, drive, dwell on, elbow, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
      elegiac pentameter, emergency, emotional shock, emphasis,
      emphasize, epitrite, excellence, exigency, external frustration,
      feature, feminine caesura, focus on, foot, force, forcefulness,
      frustration, give emphasis to, goad, grief, harass, hard knocks,
      hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harp on, haul, head,
      heave, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody,
      high order, high pressure, high rank, highlight, hurt, hurtle,
      hustle, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, imperativeness,
      import, importance, impulse, impulsion, injury, insistence,
      interest, ionic, irk, irritation, italicize, jab, jam, jingle, jog,
      joggle, jolt, jostle, lesion, level of stress, lilt, mark,
      masculine caesura, materiality, measure, mental shock,
      mental strain, merit, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot,
      metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, moment,
      mora, movement, nasty blow, nervous strain, nervous tension, note,
      nudge, numbers, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overexert,
      overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress,
      overtax, overtaxing, paeon, pain, pang, paramountcy, passion,
      pentameter, pentapody, period, pile drive, pinch,
      place emphasis on, play up, plight, point up, poke, precedence,
      predicament, preeminence, press, pressure, primacy, primary stress,
      priority, proceleusmatic, prod, prominence, prosodics, prosody,
      psychological stress, pull, punch, punctuate, push, pyrrhic,
      quantity, rack, ram, ram down, rash impulse, rattle, rhythm,
      rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, rigor, rub in, run,
      run against, sea of troubles, secondary stress, self-importance,
      shake, shock, shoulder, shove, significance, sore, sore spot,
      spasm, spondee, spotlight, sprung rhythm, star, strain,
      strain every nerve, straining, stress accent, stress and strain,
      stress of life, stress pattern, stressfulness, stretch, stroke,
      suffering, superiority, supremacy, sweat blood, swing, syzygy,
      tamp, tautness, tax, taxing, tender spot, tense, tenseness,
      tension, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis,
      throes, thrust, torque, torsion, trauma, traumatism, trial,
      tribrach, tribulation, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
      trouble, troubles, try, tug, underline, underscore, upset, urge,
      urgency, vale of tears, value, vicissitude, weak stress, weight,
      worry, worth, wound, wrench