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Meaning stress meaning

What does stress mean?
Definitions in simple English

stress Noun

— Stress is emotional pressure that makes you worry because things are not going well. Death is a time of great stress for family and friends. Plants under stress from lack of water or disease are the most likely to attract problem insects. — Stress is physical pressure that gradually can cause things to break Sitting puts an unnatural stress on the back and shortens the neck. — Stress is extra attention or importance that you put on something. Psychology has put a lot of stress on the childhood roots of adult problems. — Stress is extra loudness that you use in a word or in music. Put more stress on the first syllable of the word.

stress Verb

— If you stress something, you say that it is very important. I have repeatedly stressed the importance of hard work, but luck is also helpful. — If you stress a word, part of a word, or a note in music, you make it louder than other words or notes.

stress

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

Synonyms stress synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stress?

stress English » English

accent emphasize emphasis strain pressure accentuate tension underline highlight emphasise wind up tighten tense strech rack importance punctuate weight try tenseness squeeze accentuation underscore tone push press play up pinch focus anxiety tautness stow squash significance shut up set off put emphasis upon put away pitch oppress lock up intensify important point force exaggerate enclose distress confine condense compulsion

Topics stress topics

What do people use stress to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Emphasize
Person Healthy

Disease
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried
Language and thought Communication Language

Word

Conjugation stress conjugation

How do you conjugate stress?

stress · verb

Examples stress examples

How do I use stress in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She is unable to cope with stress.
If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.
I want to stress this point.
In Esperanto, the main stress always falls on the second-to-last syllable.
Our bodies are not designed to cope with stress for long periods.
Too much stress can lead to physical disease.
When you're about to have exams, lifting weights really does relieve stress, and it's also good for your mind and body.
The liquid flow submits the container to what we call tangential stress.
How do you handle stress?
No, all of us here are under stress.
It's an excellent method to relieve stress.
I don't need this kind of stress.
Tom has trouble dealing with stress.
Exercise is the best way to get rid of stress.
I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country.
The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
Common causes of stress are work and human relationships.
I'm always under stress.
The speaker laid stress on the need for thrift.
Since women are taking on more responsibilities at work and in the community, it is said that the number of women with stress from both child-rearing and work is increasing.
I think there are many who binge eat from stress.
It's a unique device able to make stress and melancholy vanish.
Stress can have an enormous negative impact on your health.

Movie subtitles

Look, man, we're just. we're all under a lot of stress, all right?
A little, but I don't want to stress it.
Insane people seldom do when under stress.
I'm perfectly sane, and I was under no stress.
In terms of stress, it's right up there with moving and getting fired.
Jeff, don't you think we ought to stress the dancing in that role?
Under great emotional stress?
Under great emotional stress.
I'll take the testimony from right after the murder, when he couldn't remember a thing about the movies, great emotional stress or not.
And you weren't under an emotional stress, were you?
When you speak to Gigi, be sure and stress the difficulties of the situation, not the delights.
A city, which I don't need to stress, has been entrusted to your care.
About the Ubachi strike, where you lost so many troops would you say you were under stress at the time?
Would you say that your subsequent action in attacking the bandits was influenced by the same kind of stress?
The admin wanted to make sure we start off the semester as stress-free as possible.
Now, if this officer should escape your husband will pay for it with his life, so I needn't stress the importance of the task I'm giving you.
In times of stress, work is the solution. Now, you finish packing.
We especially stress neatness, truthfulness and punctuality.
Well, we're in dire financial stress.
Obviously, she left home under the stress of some very great emotion.
I believe you have too much stress.
It's a question of, well, alloys and stress and all of that sort of thing, you know.
Tell Huntzinger that when he speaks on the radio to stress that I'm just out of the hospital.
Yes, but Excellence seems to forget that Her Majesty has just recovered from a very grave sickness, and therefore might not be able to cope with the stress of a representative journey. Certainly, Your Majesty.
You were just telling me how you've stress-chewed through so many pencils you're gonna have to get adult braces again.
People here stress the first syllable.
I cannot stress too strongly the vital and immediate necessity of getting those planes over.
In times of stress, work is the solution.
Well, we're in de financial stress.
Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot too strongly stress the necessity for calmness.
With the stress of this war, morals are hard to maintain.

News and current affairs

They will stress that if the lessons of history are not learned, history is bound to repeat itself.
It is no surprise that stock markets liked the results of the stress tests that US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner administered to America's big banks, for the general outcome had been leaked weeks before.
The stress tests were meant to signal to the public that there was no immediate threat of bank failures.
Because fear is at the core of many human pathologies, from panic attacks to posttraumatic stress disorder, breakthroughs in understanding the brain's fear system may lead to new ways to treat these disorders.
NEW YORK - Conventional wisdom rarely survives a good stress test, and few tests have been as stressful as that which the global economy has endured over the past 24 months.
Sustained work-related stress is also an important determinant of depressive disorders - the fourth-largest cause of disease world-wide.
Briefly stress consists of a pattern of built-in processes preparing the human organism for physical activity in response to demands and influences that tax its capacity to adapt.
If sustained, stress is often maladaptive and eventually disease provoking.
Stress-related paths to pathologies take a wide variety of forms.
To identify, prevent, and counteract the causes and consequences of work-related stress, we need to monitor job content, working conditions, terms of employment, social relations at work, health, well-being and productivity.
The first step is to identify the incidence, prevalence, severity, and trends of work-related stress and its causes and health consequences.
Are they likely to contribute to stress-related ill health?
Although it is likely, the short- and long-term outcomes of such changes may not always suffice in the fight against work-related stress.
They need therefore to be evaluated in terms of exposures and reactions to stress, the incidence and prevalence of ill health, and the quality and quantity of goods or services.
So, for example, journalists stress the rather pathetic high note of a grim reality: at least there are not more massacres and murders, and the numbers are stable.
Entrenched incumbent regimes everywhere are under severe stress from advances in information technology, shifts in demographics, rising expectations, and the obsolescence of Cold War exigencies.
The latest example highlighting this flaw is Dexia, the Belgian-French banking group that failed in 2011 - just after passing the European Banking Authority's stress test with flying colors.
Scientists and engineers who work on climate change stress that governments need to adopt two main responses.

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