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1.nounTreasure.
2.nounThe blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
3.nounRace; lineage, pedigree.
4.nounHereditary character, quality, or disposition."There is a strain of madness in her family."
5.nounA tendency or disposition.
6.nounAny 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
7.nounA particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc."They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain."
8.nounA portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
9.nounA kind or sort (of person etc.).
10.nounLanguage that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
11.nounThe act of straining, or the state of being strained.
12.nounA violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles."he jumped up with a strain; the strain upon the sailboat's rigging"
13.nounAn injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
14.nounA dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
15.nounThe track of a deer.
16.verbTo hold tightly, to clasp.
17.verbTo apply a force or forces to by stretching out."Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues."
18.verbTo damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force."The gale strained the timbers of the ship."
19.verbTo act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
20.verbTo 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."
21.verbTo 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"
22.verbTo separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
23.verbTo percolate; to be filtered."water straining through a sandy soil"
24.verbTo make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
25.verbTo urge with importunity; to press."to strain a petition or invitation"
26.verbHug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
27.verbTo beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world."A man straineth, liveth, then dieth."