Strain vs Duty - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
* Shakespeare
* Darwin
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
* Tillotson
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.
(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
(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
* Dryden
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
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.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
* Jonathan Swift
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.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
* Denham
* Shakespeare
To urge with importunity; to press.
* Shakespeare
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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= 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:
That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
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*1805 , 21 October,
*:England expects that every man will do his duty .
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty , cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.
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Describing a workload as to its idle, working and de-energized periods.
A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
(lb) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XX:
*:Take that which is thy duty , and goo thy waye.
(lb) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my duty to you
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
Strain is a related term of duty.
As a noun 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.As an adjective duty is
hollow (having an empty space inside).strain
English
(wikipedia strain)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- He is of a noble strain .
- 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.
- There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
- They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
- the common strain
Quotations
* (English Citations of "strain")Etymology 2
From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .Verb
(en verb)- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- 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.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- To build his fortune I will strain a little.
- He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- 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 strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
- The quality of mercy is not strained .
- to strain a petition or invitation
- Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Noun
Michael Sivak
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,
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.}}
- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.
duty
English
Noun
(duties)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}