The meaning of STRAIN is lineage, ancestry. How to use strain in a sentence. STRAIN definition: 1.
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes causing…. Learn more. To pull, draw, or stretch tight: The heavy load strained the rope. b.
strain hand treatment, Physics To cause distortion of (a body's parts or shape) by applying an external force; deform. 2. To exert, use, or tax to the utmost: straining our ears to hear. 3. To injure or impair by overuse or overexertion; wrench: strain a muscle.
strain hand treatment, 4. European scientists have discovered a new strain of the virus that causes AIDS and linked it to gorillas, creating a mystery about when and how the first patient found to have the strain became infected. To strain is to stretch tightly, make taut, wrench, tear, cause injury to, by long-continued or sudden and too violent effort or movement: to strain one's heart by overexertion, one's eyes by reading small print. Strain generally refers to the measure of deformation representing the displacement between particles in a material body implying a deformational change in shape and size. Definition of strain noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
