Dictionary

Treasure.

The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

Race; lineage, pedigree.

Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

Example: There is a strain of madness in her family.

The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.

Example: he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging

An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

To hold tightly, to clasp.

To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

Example: Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.

To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

Example: The gale strained the timbers of the ship.

To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.

To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

Example: A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.