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Definition of strain :
A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated.
Synonyms:
gallop, gillyflower, line of reasoning, stretch out, fund, progress to, bend, get to, course, rail line, edition, tonal pattern, run, human body, channel, crease, labor, tenor, mannikin, descent, exsert, moil, livestock, anxiety, offer, draw out, phase, crinkle, force, contact, manikin, deform, gentle wind, inventory, sample, screen, mental strain, contour, occupation, personal credit line, endeavour, essay, business line, pass on, judge, hold out, bloodline, mannequin, toil, prove, travail, hit, exertion, birdsong, overrefinement, word form, falsify, business, try on, punctuate, version, furrow, work, chance variable, emphasis, sieve, flex, touch, agate line, subscriber line, contort, line of descent, atmosphere, get through, chassis, contrast, give, continue, wrench, broth, short letter, frame, broaden, blood, aura, tenor voice, drive, variance, air travel, taste, vocal, warp, seek, bod, bank line, shape, twisting, configuration, put out, stretch, store, caudex, discrepancy, lead, garble, line of business, struggle, nervous strain, sink in, pedigree, fag, telephone line, elbow grease, ancestry, hand, parentage, separate out, attain, jerk, job, emphasize, percolate, soma, reach, expand, pressure, conformation, focus, demarcation, personal line of credit, wrinkle, permeate, seam, change shape, stress, test, widen, extend to, wring, adjudicate, puree, filtrate, achieve, airwave, pull, hear, call, turn over, accentuate, ache, material body, assembly line, while, filter, variate, cover, extend, dividing line, production line, tense up, anatomy, stock certificate, render, tug, gain, phone line, protract, nisus, tinge, try, turn, transmission line, manakin, pass, unfold, descriptor, melody, neckcloth, effort, tenseness, random variable, sift, zephyr, aviation, gunstock, twine, origin, assay, variation, air, telephone circuit, torture, flesh, credit line, physique, pipeline, logical argument, twist, tension, striving, var., farm animal, filter out, variant, dribble, reach out, screen out, breeze, prolong, trouble, tune, pattern, line of products, change form, get hold of, poke out, cast, attempt, try out, sweat, colour, railway line, arrive at, build, bruise, straining, distort, strive, signifier, accomplish, go, blood line, song, examine, birdcall, distortion, accent, line of credit, pain, emphasise, lineage, stretch forth, communication channel, argument, product line, endeavor, melodic line, color, line of merchandise, physical body, melodic phrase, tense, stochastic variable, argumentation, billet, line of work, pains, carry, trickle, figure, stemma, push, cable, note
category (part of speech: noun)
kingdom, order, caste, stamp, stripe, step, denomination, taxonomy, genotype, stock, genus, level, brand, race, classification, ilk, kind, designation, people, class, make, category, degree, breed, form, label, clan, phylum, rank, type, mold, species, grain, feather, series, line, family, sort, style, persuasion, set, variety, grade
Usage examples:
- The strain had been too much for him. - "Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis", H. Irving Hancock.
- The voices, while both very peculiar, are at the same time so nearly alike that it was impossible for me on hearing the first note of either strain to tell whose it was. - "Birds in the Bush", Bradford Torrey.
- The look of strain was gone. - "The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan", Lizette M. Edholm.