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Strain is a related term of rank.

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 rank is

heavy, serious, grievous.

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

Quotations

* (English Citations of "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

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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.

Anagrams

* English control verbs English terms with multiple etymologies

rank

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.

Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

* Bible, (w) xli. 5

And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

(Mortimer)

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)

Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.

Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd , passage=Chelsea remain rank outsiders to retain their crown and they still lie 12 points adrift of United, but Ancelotti will regard this as a performance that supports his insistence that they can still have a say when the major prizes are handed out this season.}}
(label) Gross, disgusting.

(label) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

(label) Inflamed with venereal appetite.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (bad odor) stinky, smelly ** See also: pong (UK) * (complete) complete, utter

Adverb

(en adverb)
(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:

The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke , / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].

* Fairfax

That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.

Etymology 2

(etyl) , which is of uncertain origin. Akin to (etyl) . More at (ring).

Noun

(en noun)
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].

The front rank''' kneeled to reload while the second '''rank fired over their heads.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
# (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard [the corresponding term for a vertical line is "file"].

(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality

Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.

The fancy hotel was of the first rank.

(class)The level of one's position in a class-based society

a level in an organization such as the military

Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines.

He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO.

(taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system

Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

(linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).

(chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those which run from letter to letter). The analog vertical lines are the files .

Derived terms

* break rank * close ranks * pull rank

Verb

(en verb)
To place abreast, or in a line.

To have a ranking.

Their defense ranked third in the league.

To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

* I. Watts

Ranking all things under general and special heads.

* Broome

Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.

* Dr. H. More

Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Anagrams

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