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stress

noun
/ˈstɹɛs/UK/stɹɛs/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *streyg-der. Latin stringō Latin distringōder. Old French destrecierbor. Middle English destresse English stress From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”). In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.

  1. derived from strictus
  2. derived from *strictia✻
  3. derived from estrece
  4. inherited from stresse
  5. derived from distringō
  6. derived from destrecier
  7. inherited from destresse

Definitions

  1. A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.

  2. Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous…

    Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.

  3. The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary…

    The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.

    2. Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

      • Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.

    3. A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound,…

      A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.

      • lexical stress
      • phrase stress, prosodic stress
      • Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.

    4. The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by…

      The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.

    5. Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or…

      Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

    6. Obsolete form of distress.

      • With this sad Hersal of his heavy stress, The warlike Damzel was empassion's sore, And said; Sir Knight, your Cause is nothing less Than is your Sorrow , certes if not more

    7. distress

      distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

    8. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.

    9. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).

    10. To suffer stress

      To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.

    11. To emphasise (a syllable of a word).

      • “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.

    12. To emphasise (words in speaking).

    13. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

      • I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.

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Derived

antistress, anti-stress, anxiostressive, backstress, combat stress reaction, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, critical incident stress management, cryostress, eigenstress, electrostress, engineering stress, eu-stress, eustress, flow stress, genostress, genotoxic stress, geostress, hyperstress, hypostress, infostress, internal stress, interstress, isostress, macrostress, microstress, mitostress, nitrosative stress, nonstress, nonstress test, osmostress, oxidative stress, paleostress, Peierls stress, photostress, porcine stress syndrome, poststress, post traumatic stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome · +54 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stress. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at stress. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at stress

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA