A physical or chemical factor that causes extra exertion by plants, usually by restricting fluid flow to foliage – a stressed plant will grow poorly.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
stress (noun)1.
constraining force or influence as
a) a force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body or body part , especially the intensity of this mutual force commonly expressed in pounds per square inch
b) the deformation caused in a body by such a force
c) a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation
d) a state resulting from a stress , especially one of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium - job-related stress
e) - strain pressure the environment is under stress to the point of collapse Joseph Shoben
2.
- emphasis weight lay stress on a point
3.
archaic intense effort or exertion
4.
intensity of utterance given to a speech sound, syllable, or word producing relative loudness
5.
a) relative force or prominence of sound in verse
b) a syllable having relative force or prominence
6.
- accent
transitive verb
1.
to subject to physical or psychological stress - stressing the equipment this traffic is stressing me out
2.
to subject to phonetic stress - accent
3.
intransitive verb
to lay stress on - emphasize stressed the importance of teamwork to feel stress - stressing about the big exam often used with out
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
stress (noun)1.
the burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time
SYNONYMS:
pressure, strain, tensionRELATED WORDS:
load, weight; anxiety, concern, uneasiness, worry; aggravation, anger, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, persecution, troubleNEAR ANTONYMS:
comfort, consolation2.
a special notice or importance given to something
SYNONYMS:
accent, accentuation, stress, underscoring, weightRELATED WORDS:
attention, concentration, focus, spotlight; consequence, import, moment, note, significance, value, worth; precedence, primacy, priority, top billing; consideration, heed, regardNEAR ANTONYMS:
minimization, underemphasis; disregard, indifference1.
to experience concern or anxiety
SYNONYMS:
bother, fear, fret, fuss, stew, stress, sweat, troubleRELATED WORDS:
agonize; long, pine, yearn; chafe; despairNEAR ANTONYMS:
accept; abide, bear, endure, stick out, stomach, sustain, take, tolerate2.
to make more apparent
SYNONYMS:
accentuate, bring out, italicize, stress, underline, underscoreRELATED WORDS:
amplify, beef (up), boost, reinforce ( reenforce), strengthen; augment, deepen, enhance, enlarge, heighten, magnify, maximize, supplement; enliven, jazz (up)NEAR ANTONYMS:
decrease, diminish, lessen, minimize, reduce, subdue, tone (down), understate, weaken3.
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on
SYNONYMS:
accent, accentuate, feature, foreground, highlight, illuminate, play up, point (up), press, punctuate, stressRELATED WORDS:
focus, identify, pinpoint, spotlight; advertise, boost, plug, promote, publicize; overplayNEAR ANTONYMS:
tone (down), underemphasize, understate; belittle, discount, disparage, minimizeStress (Wikipedia)
Stress (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).
In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the
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