English-Russian translations for stress

Definition of stress

  • A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism
  • The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ
  • Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal
  • The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word
  • Emphasis placed on words in speaking
  • distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained
  • To apply force to causing strain
  • To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated
  • To emphasise (words in speaking

Examples

  • Go easy on him, hes been under a lot of stress lately.
  • Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
  • “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
  • I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.

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