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Blood is a related term of strain.


As nouns the difference between blood and strain

is that blood is while strain is (obsolete) treasure or strain can be the act of straining, or the state of being strained.

As a verb strain is

(obsolete) to hold tightly, to clasp.

blood

English

(wikipedia blood)

Alternative forms

* bloud (obsolete)

Noun

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
  • a friend of our own blood
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • A blood test or blood sample.
  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • * 1841 , Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus , page 95:
  • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
  • * 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
  • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • * 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
  • Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
  • (label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • * Bible, (w) xiix. 11
  • He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • (label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
  • (label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
  • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
  • (member of a certain gang).
  • Hyponyms

    * menstruation

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bad blood , blood atonement , blood bank , bloodbath, blood bath , blood blister , blood brother , blood-curdling , blood diamond , blood donor , blood drive , blood eagle , bloodhound , blood is thicker than water , bloodless , bloodletting , bloodline , bloodlust, blood lust , bloody-minded , blood money , blood moon , blood orange , blood poisoning , blood product , blood pudding , blood relative, blood relation , blood sample , blood sausage , bloodshed , bloodshot , bloodsome , blood sport , bloodstain , blood-stained, bloodstained , bloodstream , bloodsucker , blood test , bloodthirsty , blood type , blood vessel , bloodwood , bloody , bloody mary , by blood , cold-blooded , first blood , for one's blood to boil , give blood , have blood on one's hands , have someone's blood on one's head , hot-blooded , in cold blood , make someone's blood boil , make someone's blood run cold , one's blood runs cold , 'sblood , smell blood , too rich for one's blood , warm-blooded}}

    See also

    * coagulation * sanguinary * sanguine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
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    * 1000 English basic words ----

    strain

    English

    (wikipedia strain)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Treasure.
  • (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  • (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He is of a noble strain .
  • * Darwin
  • With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
  • Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  • There is a strain of madness in her family.
  • * Tillotson
  • Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
  • A tendency or disposition.
  • (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
  • (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  • They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
  • (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
  • (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
  • * Dryden
  • the common strain

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
  • * Dryden
  • Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
  • To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
  • to strain''' a rope; to '''strain the shrouds of a ship
    Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
  • To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
  • The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  • To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  • To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
  • Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To build his fortune I will strain a little.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
  • * Dryden
  • They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
  • To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
  • to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
  • To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
  • To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
  • To percolate; to be filtered.
  • water straining through a sandy soil
  • To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  • * Denham
  • He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
  • * Shakespeare
  • The quality of mercy is not strained .
  • To urge with importunity; to press.
  • to strain a petition or invitation
  • * Shakespeare
  • Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.

    Noun

  • The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,
  • A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  • An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 11, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Liverpool 3-0 Man City , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.}}
  • A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
  • (label) The track of a deer.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
  • When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.