Strain Meaning in Spanish

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1. (n.) A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated.
2. (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
3. (a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
4. (a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
5. (n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
6. (a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
7. (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
8. (n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
9. (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
10. (a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
11. (a.) To squeeze; to press closely.
12. (a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
13. (n.) Rank; a sort.
14. (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
15. (n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
16. (n.) Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
17. (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
18. (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
19. (v. i.) To make violent efforts.
20. (a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
21. (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ships rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
22. (n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.

1. (a.) Violent in action.
2. (a.) Capable of being strained.

1. (adv.) Violently.

1. (a.) Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
2. (a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.
3. (imp. & p. p.) of Strain

1. (n.) One who strains.
2. (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strain
2. () a. & n. from Strain.

1. (n.) Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.