stress
Speech parts
1. stress - Noun
2. stress - Verb
Meaning
Distress.
Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
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.
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, // 31-35.
Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.