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Definition: Straining |
StrainingAdjective1. Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt. Noun1. An intense or violent exertion. 2. The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "straining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Straining the crushed grapes through a perforated metal screen often cylindrical in shape, to separate the solid particles from the juice. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: StrainingSynonyms: arduous (adj), strenuous (adj), distortion (n), overrefinement (n), strain (n), torture (n), twisting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Straining |
| English words defined with "straining": arduous ♦ Colation, Colature ♦ Proof load, puree ♦ sieve, sift, strain, strenuous, stress incontinence ♦ tiptoe, To ride easy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "straining": Backgammon ♦ clay mixer, COATING-MIXER TENDER, COLOR STRAINER ♦ Game's Afoot ♦ HEAT STORM, hop separator, HOP STRAINER ♦ Keep your Powder Dry ♦ Misnomers ♦ shearing force, SHELLACKER, Solitary Rectal Ulcer ♦ working load. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "straining": Tone. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Humpbacks feeding on krill. Straining water out of mouth before swallowing the catch. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Humpback whale feeding - straining water out to trap krill in baleen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Figure 44 (cont.) A circular sieve for straining plankton from the water used with the Apstein plankton measuring device. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Straining mild on the McNally farm. Kirby, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The cat leaped at it and struck at its straining head and slashed at its moving feet. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid straining when moving your bowel. (references) | |
They may worsen when coughing, changing posture, or straining. (references) | ||
A cystocele may result from muscle straining while giving birth. (references) | ||
Economic History | Philippines | It is worth noting that significant troubles at any major bank could lead to a swift reversal in investor sentiment (potentially straining the system's ability to service withdrawals). (references) |
Nepal | Over-population is already straining the "carrying capacity" of the middle hill areas, particularly the Kathmandu Valley, resulting in the depletion of forest cover for crops, fuel, and fodder and contributing to erosion and flooding. (references) | |
Peru | Although Peruvian law and an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) call for a budget deficit of 1.5% of GDP for 2001, most analysts were projecting a deficit of over 2%. Shortfalls in revenue resulting from the stalled economy forced the GOP to cut back on spending in the first half of the year, further straining already tight fiscal accounts. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Straining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.11% of the time. "Straining" is used about 355 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 92.11% | 327 | 15,903 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.66% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.1% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.13% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 355 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "straining": straining piece. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "straining": abdomen-straining, ankle-straining, credulity-straining, eye-straining, jacket-straining, over-straining. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
straining | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "straining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tension (intension, output, pressure, stress, stretch, tension, voltage), tendosje (effort, exertion, strain, stretch, stretching, tension), lodhje (emaciation, fatigue, harassment, lassitude, strain, tiredness, Tucker, weakening, weariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разтягане (expansion, extension, strain, stretch, stretching, tension), опъване (draw, strain, tension, traction), пресилване (forcing, overstatement, strain, supererogation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 劳损 (strained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | napìtí (animosity, strain, stress, stretch, suspense, suspension, tension, voltage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dræning (dehydration, drainage, draining, land drainage, land drying, screening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zeven (seven, sift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siivilöiminen (screening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tamisage, filtrage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anstrengend (arduous, arduously, demanding, exhausting, hard, shattering, strenuous, taxing, tiring, trying), anspannend (bracing, tensing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοσκίνισμα (sieving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מתחות (stretching), ס ון (filtering, filtration, percolation, sieving, sifting, winnowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feszítés (span, strain, stretch, stretching, strut, tension, tug), szűrés (clarification, screening, settling), megfeszítés, megerőltetés (exertion, pains, strain), erőltetés (stretch, stretching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stacciatura (screening, sifting), sgrondatura (draining, screening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 聞き耳 (straining one's ears), 絹漉し (filtering or straining through silk cloth), 無理算段 (raisingby straining one's credit, scraping together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ききみみ (straining one's ears), きぬ"し (filtering or straining through silk cloth), むりさ" " (raisingby straining one's credit, scraping together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 긴장시킴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tead chionney (straining stay), scrod chionney (straining screw), poagey sheeley (straining bag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ainingstray tensão (bent, jitters, pressure, strain, stress, tension), tamização (screening), filtragem (filtering, filtration, smoothing), esforço excessivo (overstrain, strain), esforço (ado, attempt, campaign, doing, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, fetch, pain, painstaking, strain, struggle, tax, tension, test, works), drenagem (drainage), deformação (buckle, crippling, defacement, deflexion, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion, strain), coamento (screening). (various references) strecurat (interjectional, strained), încordare (effort, intension, intensity, strain, stress, tension). (various references) фильтрование (filtering, filtration, percolation), процеживание (filtering, percolation), деформирование. (various references) sìoladh (filtering, sinking). (various references) zatezanje, naprezanje (strain). (various references) zarandado (screening), tirante (binder, brace, bridle, gunning, nail biting, shoulder strap, strap, stringent, taut, tense, tie, tight, tighten, trace), tamizado (bolting, sagging, screening, sifting), defangado mecánico (screening), coladura (faux pas, seepage). (various references) spännare. (various references) süzme (filtering, filtration, infiltration, percolation). (various references) dyzamak (be bursting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contentio, intentionum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "straining": constraining, distraining, mistraining, overstraining, restraining. (additional references) | |
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"Straining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sranang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "straining" (pronounced strā"ning) |
| 7 | s t r ā" n i ng | constraining, restraining. |
| 6 | -t r ā" n i ng | overtraining, retraining, training. |
| 5 | -r ā" n i ng | draining, raining, refraining, reigning, reining. |
| 4 | -ā" n i ng | abstaining, ascertaining, attaining, campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, containing, detaining, disdaining, entertaining, explaining, feigning, gaining, maintaining, obtaining, ordaining, pertaining, regaining, remaining, retaining, staining, sustaining, waning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: trainings. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ingrains, sainting, staining, training. | |
-2 letters: airings, airting, antings, arising, gastrin, gratins, ingrain, raining, raising, ranting, ratings, rinsing, saining, snaring, staning, staring, trining. | |
-3 letters: airing, anting, gainst, giants, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, instar, isatin, raisin, rasing, rating, rising, saning, santir, sating, siring, siting, strain, strang, string, taring, tining, tiring, trains. | |
-4 letters: agist, airns, airts, angst. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: astringing, instarring, intrigants, resinating, tarnishing, transiting. | |
+2 letters: brigantines, distraining, intriguants, mistraining, patronising, reinstating, resignation, restraining, straitening, transfixing, transpiring, tyrannising. | |
+3 letters: ascertaining, centralising, constraining, denigrations, germinations, hamstringing, handwritings, ingatherings, integrations, interfacings, interspacing, intransigent, marginations, naturalising, neutralising, organisation, originations, printmakings, reinstalling, resignations, streamlining, transcribing, transhipping, transmitting. | |
+4 letters: administering, astringencies, brainstorming, disheartening, emarginations, energizations, externalising, housetraining, impersonating, impregnations, inaugurations, ingratiations, internalising, intransigeant, intransigence, intransigents, invigorations, mainstreaming, masterminding, nonimmigrants, organisations, organizations, overstraining, rationalising, romanticising, standardising, standardizing, straightening, subordinating, trampolinings, transfiguring, transpiercing, transshipping. | |
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