Stress meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Noun

Distress.

2. Noun

Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.

3. Noun

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.

4. Noun

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.

5. Noun

Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

6. Verb

To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.

7. Verb

To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.

8. noun

The force carried inside a material over a given area.

Internal force per unit area within a material.

9. Verb

to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

10. Noun

(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"

Vocabulary classified under Physics

11. Noun

(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"

Vocabulary classified under Psychology

12. Noun

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric

13. Noun

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

Vocabulary classified under Engineering