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Definition: Stress |
StressNoun1. The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable". 2. A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor". 3. (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body. 4. Special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed". 5. 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. Verb1. To stress, single out as important: "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet.". 2. Put stress on; utter with an accent. 3. Test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Stress \Stress\, noun. [Abbrev. from distress; or compare to Old French estrecier to press, pinch, (assumed) Late Latin strictiare, from Latin strictus. See Distress.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | STRESS STRuctual Engineering Systems Solver. A system for structural analysis problems in Civil Engineering. STRESS was superseded by STRUDL. ["STRESS: A User's Manual", S.J. Fenves et al, MIT Press 1964]. [Sammet 1969, p. 612]. (1995-01-31). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. The force per unit area of a body that tends to produce a deformation.2. The effect of a physiological, psychological, or mental load on a biological organism which causes fatigue and tends to degrade proficiency. (references) |
Geological | Force per unit area acting on a plane within a body. Six values are required to characterize completely the stress at a point: three normal components and three shear components. (references) |
Health | Forcibly exerted influence; pressure. Any condition or situation that causes strain or tension. Stress may be either physical or psychologic, or both. (references) |
Labor | Gradual elimination of physical and psychological stress which exists in the place of work and on the job. [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Forcibly exerted influence; presure. Any condition or situation that causes strain or tension. Stress may be either physical or psychologic, or both. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A physical, chemical, or emotional factor. . . to which an individual fails to make a satisfactory adaptation and which causes physiologic tensions that may be a contributory cause of disease . Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Any potentially damaging strain, force or agent, which stimulates a physiological defence reaction and is capable of producing pathological lesions. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Meteorology & Standards | All influences or a part thereof to which an item is exposed at a certain instant. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In a solid, the force per unit area, acting on any surface within it, and variously expressed as pounds or tons per square inch, or dynes or kilograms per square centimeter; also, by extension, the external pressure that creates the internal force. The stress at any point is mathematically defined by nine values: three to specify the normal components and six to specify the shear components, relative to three mutually perpendicular reference axes. CF:strainshear stress. (references) |
Physics | If we assume that Hooke's law is obeyed, that is, that strain is proportional to --, this ratio will be the same for a range of values of strains and stresses. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The "stress" in relation to a given element of area is the limit to which the quotient dF/dS tends, when dS tends to zero(dS = element of area; dF = internal force). The stress can be expressed, e. g. in kilogrammes per square millimetre. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The intensity of the internal forces in a body which tend to resist the relative displacement of the constituent particles. It is measured in terms of force per unit area. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In the tensile or compression test, quotient of the load applied at a given moment by the area of the initial section of the test piece. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | Any strain, anxiety, psychological shock or excessive pressure that disturbs the smooth functioning of a person or organism(and by extension, a group); Disasters are stressful events; -DDMG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Marijuana smokers are "stressed" by smoking poor quality marijuana. Definition: The marijuana in question is of poor quality, meaning it is not as potent as other types. Also referred to as "Schwag," "bammer," and "bunk.". Context: Used to describe the quality of marijuana, but not as an adjective, but as a noun. Social Source: Marijuana Dealers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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- Stress in physics, see also pressure
- Medical or psychological stress, see stress (medicine)
- Vocal stress, see phonology
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Stress (roughly the opposite of relaxation) is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome, first recognised in 1956 by Hans Selye.
Selye was able to separate the physical effects of stress from other physical symptoms suffered by patients through his research. He observed that patients suffered physical effects not caused directly by their disease or by their medical condition.
Selye described the general adaptation syndrome as having three stages:
Stress includes distress, the result of negative events, and eustress, the result of positive events. Despite the type, stress is additive. If your dog dies and you win the lottery, one does not cancel the other, both are stressful events.
- alarm reaction, where the body detects the external stimulus
- adaptation, where the body engages defensive countermeasures against the stressor
- exhaustion, where the body begins to run out of defenses
Stress can directly and indirectly contribute to general or specific disorders of body and mind. Stress can have a major impact on the physical functioning of the human body. Such stress raises the level of adrenaline and corticosterone in the body, which in turn increases the heart-rate, respiration, blood-pressure and puts more physical stress on bodily organs. Long-term stress can be a contributing factor in heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and other illnesses.
The Japanese phenomenon of karoshi, or death from overwork, is believed to be due to heart attack and stroke caused by high levels of stress.
Neurochemistry and physiology of the general adaptation syndrome
The general neurochemistry of the general adaptation syndrome is now believed to be well understood, although much remains to be discovered about how this system interacts with others in the brain and elsewhere in the body.
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a major part of the neuroendocrine system, involving the interactions of the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland and the adrenal glands. The HPA axis is believed to be a focus of the body's reactions to stress.
detailed treatment to be written -- subjects to cover include:
- corticosteroid
- corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)
- adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
- β-endorphin
Folklore of stress
About the time of Selye's work, the gradual realization dawned that age-old if sometimes ill-defined concepts such as worry, conflict, tiredness, frustration, distress, overwork, pre-menstrual tension, over-focusing, confusion, mourning and fear could all come together in a general broadening of the meaning of the term stress. The popular use of the term in modern folklore expanded rapidly, spawning an industry of self-help, personal counselling, and sometimes quackery.
The use of the term stress in serious recognized cases such as those of post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosomatic illness has scarcely helped clear analysis of the generalized 'stress' phenomenon. Nonetheless, some varieties of stress from negative life events, or distress, and from positive life events, or eustress, can clearly have a serious physical impact distinct from the troubles of what psychotherapistss call "the worried well".
See also:
- stress management
- fight-or-flight response
- panic attack
- peace of mind
External links
- Stress and hormones
- Some course notes for a course about stress and the brain
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In physics, the stress at a point in a material is the applied force per unit area. The stress unit is the Pascal (symbol Pa). To be exact, the stress at a point may be determined by taking the limit of the load being carried by a particular cross section, divided by that cross section, as the area of the cross section aproaches zero. In general the stress may vary from point to point, but for simple cases, such as circular cylinders with pure axial loading, the stress is constant and equal to the cross-sectional area divided by the applied load.
Stress is described by a symmetric tensor.
For instance, if we have a steel bolt with a diameter of 5 mm, it has a cross-sectional area of 2*10-5m2. Suppose that the load is 50 kN, the stress (force distributed across the cross-section) is about 2.5 MPa.
That means each m2 of bolt would support 2.5 MN of the total load.
In another bolt with half the diameter, and hence a quarter the cross-sectional area, carrying the same 50 kN load, the stress will be quadrupled (10 MPa).
The ultimate tensile strength of a material is the value of the tension stress causing the material's fracture. The compression strength is analogous for compression strain. The yield strength is the value of stress causing plastic deformation. These values are determined experimentally using the measurement procedure known as the tensile test.
See also Stress-energy tensor.
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In linguistics, vocal stress is the accent or emphasis given to each syllable in a piece of writing, as determined by conventional pronunciation. The amount and importance of vocal stress varies in languages. In some languages, vocal stress can determine the meaning of a word.For example, in English, the word record changes its meaning according to vocal stress:
Poetry in English depends upon vocal stress to establish the meter of the poem. The vocal stress is usually thought of as strong or weak. Some people distinguish a third, intermediate stress level.
- record, the noun
- record, the verb
Example: In the word reconsider, the stress pattern is 'recon'sider (intermediate - weak - strong - weak).
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STRESS | English | Structural Engineering System Solver | Computing |
| STREX | English | STRess hormone regulated EXon | Medicine |
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Synonyms: StressSynonyms: accentuation (n), emphasis (n), focus (n), tenseness (n), tension (n), accent (v), accentuate (v), emphasise (v), emphasize (v), punctuate (v), strain (v), try (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Swear by; (believe); insist upon, take one's stand upon; emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm. |
Compulsion | Under protest, in spite of one's teeth; against one's will; nolens volens; (of necessity); by stress of circumstances, by stress of weather; under press of; de rigueur. |
Difficulty | Nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble. |
Elasticity | Phrase: the stress is proportional to the strain. |
Exertion | Noun: exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work,Noun: exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work, stitch of work. |
Importance | Gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter; pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death. |
Attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to; Noun: value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark; mark with a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on. | |
Necessity | Faute de mieux; by stress of; if need be. |
Reasoning, | Contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer. |
Requirement | Noun: requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency,pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death. |
Voice | Accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation. |
Wind | Windiness .Adjective: ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Quality stress dissipation opportunities here (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) I can not stress enough how much I don't have plans (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) The stress level is just too damn high (Bandits; writing credit: Harley Peyton) Got no worry, got no stress. (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher) | |
Lyrics | I reminised on tha stress I caused, it wuz hell (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) If you believe in the X you'll be relievin your stress (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre) But stress, don't you let in, don't you forget it (Don't You Forget It; performing artist: Glenn Lewis) Now you wanna stress me out, you put me on a route til my hair fall out (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT) Who invented party anthems to ease stress away (Feels Good; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Clever | A timely word may level stress. (references; author: unknown) If not for stress, I'd have no energy at all. (references; author: unknown) Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stress (1956) Zero Stress (1998) S.O.S. Stress (1992) Stress (1990) Pour l'amour du stress (1990) | |
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 | Resident Canada Geese - the ones who "forget" to fly home for the summer. Resident Canada Geese put additional stress on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Piglets are one of the main subjects of ARS animal behaviorists. These scientists study behavior of pigs and cows 'round the clock with the goal of improving animal handling practices to reduce stress on animals and lower production costs. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Producers and marketers can minimize pre-slaughter fasting stress in cattle by feeding animals regularly. And the practice could do a lot to maintain the normal balance of rumen microbes and suppress bacterial like E. coli 0157:H7. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Brian Prechtel.. |  | Lengthwise view of the rat brain showing the brain regions in which certain stress hormones (i.e., endogenous opioids) are released. Credit: NIAA. |
 | This image represents the equilibration of osmotic stress among the phase under study and the external stressing solution in vast excess across a semipermeable membrane. At equilibrium the osmotic pressure of the stressing solution is identical to the osmotic pressure stressing the subphase. Credit: NICHD. |  | Osmotic stress can be generated even when no semipermeable membrane is present to define the subphase. This happens when there are regions of steric exclusion of the stressing polymer. Every region of steric exclusion feels the osmotic stress generated by the excluded polymer. Credit: NICHD. |
 | Schematic depiction of the osmotic stress action in the case of actin polymerization (Picture courtesy R.P. Rand, Brock U). Credit: NICHD. |  | A schematic presentation of the rationale for using Osmotic Stress method in thye study of biopolymers, especially DNA (Picture courtesy H.H. Strey, NIH). Credit: NICHD. |
 | Measuring the physiological response to heat stress in a climatic chamber ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Novosti.. |  | Defuse Stress : Take time to relax, eat right and exercise regularly. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "High Stress Energy" by César Rodríguez Commentary: "Sky with wire pollution." | "Traffic, a Scream, and a Year" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "With times moving so fast, you MUST capture the scream, the birthday and the stress of the "stop."." |
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Author Unknown | It's serving, striving, through strain and stress. It's doing your noblest -- that's success. |
Author Unknown. | In times of stress and strain, people will vote. |
Edith Hamilton | It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated. |
Lily Tomlin | Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But be this as it will, which I lay no stress on; this I dare boldly affirm, that the same rule of propriety, (viz.) that every man should have as much as he could make use of, would hold still in the world, without straitening any body; since there is land enough in the world to suffice double the inhabitants, had not the invention of money, and the tacit agreement of men to put a value on it, introduced (by consent) larger possessions, and a right to them; which, how it has done, I shall by and by shew more at large. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bishop had laid much stress upon these words as he uttered them |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Oxidative stress increases. (references) | |
This is called stress incontinence. (references) | ||
Stress test (oxytocin challenge test). (references) | ||
Business | A campaign to stress ethnic unity and to condemn "splitism" and religious extremism began in April. (references) | |
U.S firms should stress their commitment to after sales service and timely replacement parts to purchasers. (references) | ||
New office furniture designs, even seats, stress ergonomics; i.e., balance between esthetics and physical comfort. (references) | ||
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Nonetheless, children continue to suffer disproportionately from the societal stress of the postwar era. (references) |
Venezuela | Increasing poverty has raised the level of stress within families and led to a rise in the number of abandoned children and to more child abuse. (references) | |
Lesotho | However, familial stress, poverty, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and divorce have led to a rise in child homelessness and abandonment, creating a growing number of street children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Singapore | Government leaders often have challenged publicly the "Western model" of journalism, under which the media holds an antagonistic relationship with the Government, and advocated that news media should place primary stress on supporting the goals of the elected leadership and on helping maintain social and religious harmony. (references) |
Economic History | Guatemala | One cannot stress too strongly the need for investors to secure reliable local counsel. (references) |
Malaysia | The domestic banking system came under acute stress as a result of the regional economic crisis. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Continuing concern about arbitrary FARC justice in the zone led the authorities to stress that governmental justice must be present. (references) |
El Salvador | There are separate court systems for family matters and juvenile offenders; they stress conciliation as an alternative to adjudication. (references) | |
Angola | Recruits were taken to isolated military camps and subjected to psychological stress and extreme hardships; those who attempted to desert were executed. (references) | |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Global budgeting, planned to begin in mid-2002, is expected to put further stress on U.S. and other research-based pharmaceutical companies. (references) |
Finland | Green League (Vihrealiitto): The first green party to serve in government in Europe, the Finnish Greens stress social and environmental issues. (references) | |
Australia | All of Australia's major parties support the U.S.-Australia Alliance and stress the importance of close relations between Australia and the United States. (references) | |
Trade | Malaysia | The government has taken a number of preemptive measures to strengthen Malaysia's banking system, which has come under increasing stress since the onset of the regional financial crisis in mid-1997. (references) |
Egypt | Although Egyptian authorities stress that standards applied to imports are identical to those applicable to domestically-produced goods, they are more strict in enforcing product standards on imported food products than on local food products. (references) | |
Travel | Bahrain | We cannot stress enough that personal contact, frequently renewed, is key to doing business successfully in Bahrain. (references) |
Women | Argentina | NGO's working in the area of women's rights stress that women too often do not have a full understanding of their rights. (references) |
Jordan | Women's groups stress that the problem of discrimination is not only one of law, but also of women's lack of awareness of their rights or unwillingness to assert those rights. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Macau | Unions tend to stress the importance of stability and minimum disruption of the work force. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. |
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Angela Ricci | I do work. I work part-time, and I actually haven't been to work for about two weeks. Between the stress and the FBI and the media, it's been a very hard time for me. I'm just a single mom trying to make it. So, it's really stressful right now. |
Marla Hanson | Right. Usually it's a six-month point where they think that they can start to classify it as post-trauma. Before that, it's more of a trauma stress and those are normal reactions to a trauma. |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | In recent years, under the stress of the Vietnam war, legislative restrictions on the President's ability to execute foreign policy and military decisions have proliferated. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This growth will enable us to develop new technical means of intelligence collection while also assuring that the more traditional methods of intelligence work are also given proper stress. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | When I took this oath four years ago, I did so in a time of economic stress. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | A lot of our people don't have the time or the emotional stress they think to do the work of citizenship. |
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| "Stress" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.23% of the time. "Stress" is used about 4,603 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.23% | 3,693 | 2,628 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.71% | 723 | 9,321 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.97% | 183 | 22,794 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.07% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,603 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stress": a time of storm and stress ♦ Airy stress function ♦ allowable stress ♦ be under stress ♦ bed shear stress ♦ biaxial stress ♦ breaking stress ♦ buckling stress ♦ by stress of ♦ by stress of weather ♦ climatical stress ♦ compressive stress ♦ constitutional stress ♦ cyclic stress ♦ Dental Stress Analysis ♦ design stress ♦ environmental stress cracking ♦ equivalent fiber stress at maximum load ♦ equivalent fibre stress at maximum load ♦ flexional stress ♦ fluctuating stress ♦ Heat Stress Disorders ♦ heat stress index ♦ heat stress index of Belding and Hatch ♦ hoop stress ♦ in times of stress ♦ intensity of stress ♦ latent stress ♦ lay stress ♦ lay stress on ♦ lay stress on smth. ♦ lay stress upon ♦ Lower yield stress ReL ♦ main stress ♦ microscopic stress ♦ nominal stress ♦ oxidative stress ♦ permissible stress ♦ plain stress ♦ posttraumatic stress disorder ♦ Premenstrual Stress Syndrome ♦ primary stress ♦ principal planes of stress ♦ put under stress ♦ radical stress ♦ relief treatment of stress ♦ repeated stress ♦ safe stress ♦ sentence stress ♦ shear stress ♦ shearing stress ♦ spring subjected to bending stress ♦ spring subjected to bending stress in its material ♦ spring subjected to torsional stress ♦ spring subjected to torsional stress in its material ♦ storm and stress ♦ stress analysis ♦ stress disease ♦ stress disorders ♦ Stress Fibers ♦ stress fracture ♦ Stress incontinence ♦ Stress management ♦ stress mark ♦ stress of voice ♦ stress of weather ♦ Stress Pattern Processing ♦ stress relief treatment ♦ stress test ♦ stress testing ♦ Stress Ulcer ♦ stress urinary ♦ stress urinary incontinence ♦ tangential stress ♦ tensile stress ♦ textural stress ♦ the stress is proportional to the strain ♦ To lay stress upon ♦ To put stress upon ♦ To put to a stress ♦ tolerated stress ♦ torsional stress ♦ ultimate stress ♦ uniaxial stress ♦ unit compressive stress ♦ unit stress ♦ value stress ♦ vanishing stress ♦ word stress ♦ work stress ♦ working stress. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stress": stress-buster, stress-carrying, stress-coping, stress-count, stress-cracking, stress-donating, stress-energy, stress-enhancing, stress-filled, stress-fractured, stress-free, stress-ful, stress-induced, stress-inducible, stress-inducing, stress-laden, stress-management, stress-path, stress-phonology, stress-point, stress-prone, stress-provoking, stress-rating, stress-reducing, stress-reduction, stress-related, stress-relaxation, stress-strain, stress-strain-strength, stress-superposition, stress-timed, stress-whitening. | |
Ending with "stress": anti-stress, de-stress, dis-stress, high-stress, lessen-stress, multiple-stress, multi-stress, over-stress, re-stress, use-stress, word-stress. | |
Containing "stress": anti-stress-related, Storm-and-stress period. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
stress | 4,482 | stress relief game | 90 |
stress management | 3,135 | stress management technique | 87 |
stress test | 642 | managing stress | 84 |
post traumatic stress disorder | 610 | stress incontinence | 83 |
stress relief | 491 | nuclear stress test | 82 |
symptom of stress | 372 | post tramatic stress disorder | 78 |
stress fracture | 330 | foot stress fracture | 76 |
heat stress | 262 | stress and pregnancy | 72 |
stress ball | 220 | web application stress tool | 71 |
stress reliever | 185 | cardiac stress test | 69 |
stress reduction | 172 | thallium stress test | 68 |
post traumatic stress | 150 | effects of stress | 66 |
post traumatic stress syndrome | 149 | anxiety and stress | 61 |
job stress | 121 | heart stress test | 60 |
work stress | 114 | stress picture | 59 |
stress reducer | 113 | combat hypnotherapy stress | 58 |
stress in the workplace | 106 | cause of stress | 57 |
workplace stress | 101 | relieve stress | 56 |
coping with stress | 96 | stress health | 55 |
hkirtley stress webpages.charter.net | 95 | stress testing | 55 |
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| Language | Translations for "stress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beklemtoon (accent, accentuate), aksentueer (accent, accentuate), aksent (accent, accent mark, supersign). (various references) | |
Albanian | stres, theksoj (accentuate, emphasize, highlight, point, punctuate, sharpen), theksim (accent, accentuation, emphasis), theks (accent, emphasis), tensionoj (distress, strain, stretch), tension nervor (nerve-strain), tension (intension, output, pressure, straining, stretch, tension, voltage), ndemje (strain, tension), nënvizoj (accentuate, dash, emphasize, highlight, italicize, punctuate, score under, underline, underscore), kuptim (comprehension, conception, construction, drift, hang, import, meaning, perception, point, purport, realization, sense, significance, signification, understanding). (various references) | |
Arabic | نبرة (accent, emphasis, ring, strain, tone), لفت الانتباه (draw, engage, grab, point, rivet), وطأة (pressure, weight), وضع النبرة على, توتر (in a stew, strain, tauten, tautness, tense, tenseness, tension, tensity, tighten), تعب (failure, fatigue, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, lassitude, pan, punish, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, toil, try, tucker, weariness, weary), ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, telescope, tension), صر على (consist), جهد (dint, effort, exert, exertion, labor, labour, overload, overstrain, overwork, pain, pressure, spirt, spurt, strain, tension, worry), إصرار (assertiveness, firmness, insistence, obduracy, persistence, resoluteness, stubbornness), إجهاد (exertion, fatigue, overwork, strain), أهمية (account, consequence, consideration, import, importance, magnitude, moment, pith, prominence, significance, standing, value, weight, weightiness, worth). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стрес, усилие (ado, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, intension, push, stab, struggle, trouble), ударение (accent, emphasis), чета с ударение, гнет (oppression, shackles), важност (account, concern, concernment, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, materiality, moment, pith, pomposity, self-importance, seriousness, significance, solemnity, value, weight), натоварване (lading, load, loading, stowage), натиск (arm-twisting, compression, compulsion, delivery, heat, pressure, push, screw, squeeze, thrust, urgency), наблягане (emphasis), наблягам на (accentuate, emphasize, press), напрежение (effort, electricity, exertion, intension, intensity, press, pressure, push, strain, stretch, suspense, tension, tensity), напор (head, inrush, pressure, push), акцент (accent, accentuation), подчертаване (accentuation, emphasis, underlining, underscoring). (various references) | |
Chinese | 重音 (accent). (various references) | |
Czech | stres (anxiety), zdùraznit (accentuate, bring out, emphasize, highlight, lay stress, reiterate, underline), vyzvednout (collect, draw smb. out, exalt, fetch, withdraw), tlak (head, oppression, pinch, press, pressure, strain), přízvukovat (accent, accentuate), přízvuk (accent), napìtí (animosity, strain, straining, stretch, suspense, suspension, tension, voltage), namáhání (strain), dùraz (accent, emphasis), dùležitost (concernment, consequence, greatness, importance, magnitude, relevance). (various references) | |
Danish | stress, betoning (accent). (various references) | |
Dutch | stress (strain, work stress), beklemtonen (accent, accentuate), accentueren (accent, accentuate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | akcento (accent), akcenti (accent, accentuate). (various references) | |
Faeroese | leggja dent á (accent, accentuate), leggja áherðslu á (accent, accentuate), herðing (accent, emphasis), herða á ljóð (accent, accentuate). (various references) | |
Farsi | فشار (Brunt, Constraint, Hustle, Impact, Oppression, Press, Pressure, Squeeze, Strain, Tension, Thrust, Zip), پریشان کردن (Afflict, Agitate, Ail, Buffalo, Confound, Distract, Nonplus, Oppress, Tousle), مضیقه (Extremity, Pinch), مالیات زیادبستن , قوت (Accent, Bread, Emphasis, Intensity, Maintenance, Nourishment, Nutrition, Pith, Punch, Strength, Vis), تقلا (Agony, Bout, Bustle, Effort, Exertion, Muss, Scrabble, Scramble, Slog, Strain, Strife, Tug, Wrestle), تاکیدکردن (Accent, Enforce, Playup, Underline), تاکید (Accent, Emphasis, Underscore), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Tenacity, Violence), اهمیت (Circumstance, Dimension, Emphasis, Gravity, Importance, Magnitude, Moment, Notability, Pith, Significance, Valor). (various references) | |
Finnish | rasitus (charge, encumbrance, exertion, strain). (various references) | |
French | souligner, accentuer, tension (strain), stress (work stress), accent (stress-mark). (various references) | |
Frisian | aksint (accent). (various references) | |
German | Betonung (accent, accentuation, emphasis, intonation, marking, stressing), belastung (burden, burdening, charge, encumbrance, incrimination, liabilities, load, load capacity, loading, pressure, putting weight on, strain, tax, tie, trial, weight), Ton (accent, atmosphere, audio, chime, clang, clay, hue, intonation, note, nuance, pip, shade, Sound, style, tint, tone), stress (pressure), spannung (excitement, fixture, strain, suspense, tautness, tension, tightness, voltage), betonen (accent, accentuate, emphasize, intonate, point up, punctuate, to accentuate, to emphasize, to stress, urge), belasten (afflict, be a burden on, burden, charge, cumcumber, debit, encumber, incriminate, load, put a strain on, put pressure on, put weight on, strain, stretch, tax, to encumber, to incriminate, to stress, weigh upon), Beanspruchung (call, claim, demand, encroachment, use), Akzent (accent, emphasis). (various references) | |
Greek | στρες, πίεση (coercion, compulsion, press, pressure, squeezing), άγχος (angst, anguish, consternation), τονίζω (accent, accentuate, emphasize, highlight, intone, key, make much of, pitch, punctuate, show off, tone, tune). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתיחות (elasticity, strain, stretch, tenseness, tension, tightness), מאמץ (effort, endeavour, exertion, strain, struggle), מצוקה (adversity, distress, hardship, misery, need, straits), ללחוץ (crush, force, jam, oppress, press, push), לשים דגש (accenuate, emphasize, underline), לחץ (compulsion, distress, duress, force, oppression, press, pressure), להדגיש (accent, accentuate, emphasize, underscore), להטעים (accent, accentuate, emphasize, intone), הדגשה (accent, emphasis), הבלטה (conspicuity, emphasis, projection, prominence, splash), הטעמה (accentuation, emphasis, recitation), דוחק (density, duress, exigency, importunate, penury, pressure, squash), דחק (emergency, need, pressure), דגש (centre mark, dagesh, emphasis), נחץ (accentuation, urgency). (various references) | |
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