Tension is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENSION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make strained
• apply a force to (something) which tends to stretch it
• tighten
NOUN:
• the state of being stretched tight
• the state of having the muscles stretched tight, especially as causing strain or discomfort
• a strained state or condition resulting from forces acting in opposition to each other
• the degree of tightness of stitches in knitting and machine sewing.
• electromotive force.
• mental or emotional strain
• a strained political or social state or relationship
• a relationship between ideas or qualities with conflicting demands or implications
• hostility or suspense
• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
• the physical condition of being stretched or strained
• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
• feelings of hostility that are not manifest
• the action of stretching something tight
ADJECTIVE:
• The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
• Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
• The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.
• The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.
• A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.
• Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.
• The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make tense

Words related to TENSION

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Words that contain TENSION

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How to use TENSION in a sentence

• As a series of plot developments bring that character into some kind of danger, we follow him and within us a sense of tension arises.
• Whence arose the rumor, I cannot say, but it was noised about just at that time of wrath and tension that Plooie was born in Liege.
• With that in his face that gave Adelaide a sense of the ending of a tension within her, he seated himself where his father had always sat.
• As the great tension passed for a time he was conscious of an immense weariness.
• The old cellulose wall shows signs of great tension, its conical extremity rounding out under the slowly increasing pressure from within.
• Human nature is so constituted that it can always endure a little more, and though they kept the tension high for many minutes I did not buckle under the strain.
• I was tired, yet I found the change from the close railway carriage, and the tension of the last few hours, delightful.
• As the tension let down it could be seen that John Gaviller was on the verge of a collapse.
• The tension in the room felt like nails in my stomach.
• Thus Spring went by with the atmosphere at high tension.
• I could feel a sort of tension in the atmosphere, and I expected her to do something theatrical.
• They have smoked away its fighting tension, its hideous expectancy.
• The tension steadily increased, and both looked forward to the moment when something must give way.
• The episode gives a clear idea of the state of nervous tension that existed.
• The political tension was felt even in the remote corners of the Albanian mountains.
• But the tension of which such attacks were the result was everywhere.
• The immediate tree-lanes were filled with watchers in suffocating tension then.
• But, while crying offers relief from extreme tension or grief, it does not justify crying for the so-called pleasure derived from it.
• He felt she was striving to gain a control over her nerves, that were strung to the highest tension.
• Six years had fined her face into beauty, but there was tension in the set of her shoulders, and her gray eyes had looked on horrors.
• I explained that Juli was my sister, and saw a little of the tension fade from her face, but not all.
• With a team that has won every game to that point, yet often with great difficulty, the tension of spirits is even higher.
• But it was not in her to write all she felt, and so she sought to break the tension with something in the way of a joke.
• For a moment his arms encircled her with a close and quivering tension.
• If the stroke be strong, the organ of hearing suffers a considerable degree of tension.
• Poor Mademoiselle returned an hour ago and was obliged to go to bed, done up with the nervous tension.
• We hold all our muscles in tension in order to receive the fullest possible impression with our sense organs.

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