Stresses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRESSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRESS, to place emphasis on
• give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing
• give emphasis to (a syllable or word) when pronouncing it
• subject to pressure or tension
• cause mental or emotional strain or tension in
• become tense or anxious; worry
NOUN:
• pressure or tension exerted on a material object
• the degree of stress measured in units of force per unit area.
• a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances
• something that causes a state of strain or tension
• particular emphasis or importance
• emphasis given to a particular syllable or word in speech, typically through a combination of relatively greater loudness, higher pitch, and longer duration

Words related to STRESSES

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How to use STRESSES in a sentence

• They are under stresses now as harsh at least as the stresses of France.
• Now hitherto the utmost that any State, overtaken by social and economic stresses, has ever achieved in the way of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching.
• In the good old days, the pace was leisurely, stresses fewer and everything was rosy.
• These stresses rapidly replace one another as the satellite travels along.
• The relief of stresses, from whatever cause arising, in and beneath the crust must surely take place in these regions of disturbance and along these linear areas.
• The stresses set up are, in such cases, very difficult to estimate.
• The stresses in the web are greatest at the ends of the span.
• In bridges so erected the straining action during erection must be studied, and material must be added to resist erecting stresses.
• For all these reasons the stresses due to the live load are greater than those due to the same load resting quietly on the bridge.
• The stresses and risks of international travel in the early years of the century were the least of the obstacles to the realization of the objectives He had set Himself.
• He suffered from several maladies brought on by the strains and stresses of a tragic life spent almost wholly in exile and imprisonment.
• After all, she reminded herself, in the day by day stresses of life, it was this gift of understanding, of sympathy with the innate needs, that counted so tremendously.
• The Church stresses such facts, not only because they are facts, but because by their character they form a hedge about the truth of the Incarnation of our Lord.
• Or the one, say English, may be very sensitive to relative stresses, while in the other, say French, stress is a very minor consideration.
• The situation almost creaked under the complicated stresses to which it was subject.
• The relation of the stresses developed in different structural forms to those developed in the small clear specimens is given.
• An external force is always balanced by the internal stresses when the body is in equilibrium.
• The difficulties attending the measurement of the stresses beyond the elastic limit are so great that commonly they are not reckoned.
• In common practice nearly all external stresses are of the nature of impact.
• In the light of these facts it is not safe to base working stresses on results secured from any but green material.
• For a discussion of factors of safety and safe working stresses for structural timbers see the Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association, Chicago, 1911.
• It stresses this highly important factor, as it should, but merely as a physical necessity.
• He does not reach the point of proposing a call-number system but stresses the importance of shelf-location guides in the catalogue.
• They did not realize, until they got into the elections of 1921, that their party had disintegrated under the stresses of war.
• In this matter the very knowledge of classical Latin, of its stresses and its quantities, still more perhaps an acquaintance with Greek, is apt to mislead.
• Caughley stresses the point that it is not mere knowledge of physiology that will meet the case.

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