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Strain vs Wheeze - What's the difference?

strain | wheeze |

As nouns the difference between strain and wheeze

is that strain is (obsolete) treasure or strain can be the act of straining, or the state of being strained while wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

As verbs the difference between strain and wheeze

is that strain is (obsolete) to hold tightly, to clasp while wheeze is to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

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.

    wheeze

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  • (British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan
  • * 2011 " Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:
  • The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
  • (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
  • The new comedy is a wheeze .
    You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • * 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
  • If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.