Stress
To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.
To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.
Distress.
Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
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Stress Quotations
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson
Stress Translations
stress in Afrikaans is beklemtoon
stress in Danish is betoning
stress in Dutch is accentueren, beklemtonen
stress in French is balisage, souligner, accent, accentuer
stress in German is Beanspruchung, belasten, Belastung, betonen
stress in Italian is accentuare, accento
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