2. subst. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
3. subst. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
4. subst. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
There is a strain of madness in her family.
5. subst. A tendency or disposition.
6. subst. (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
7. subst. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
8. subst. (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.
9. subst. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
10. v. (obsolete) To 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.
Man, look at that cat straining that kitty.
The sun straineth light. (approx.1225, Homily on the Creed in Cambridge)
A wife he nam; a son on her he strained. (circa 1275, Layamon, The Brut)
He shall strain on her a swith selely son. (circa 1275, Layamon, The Brut)
Eadie is his spouse, whose maid-hood is unwemmed (unviolated), when he, on her, straineth. (circa1225, Hali Meidenhad - Holy Maiden-Hood)
Our Drighten sent his high angel Gabriel to ..Zachariah.. to say that he should strain a holy child and clepe it John. (approx.1225, Homilies in Cambridge)
Our healand was strained of the heavenly father ere then that heaven or earth shapen (formed) were. (approx.1225, Homilies in Cambridge)
Naked they gan; nis there none of other agramed; ne for their nakedhood ashamed; without lust of sin they strain.
Thy wife is thine alone, only thou mayest strain on her; no other man may strain on thy wife ne mayest thou strain on a wife of another.
Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel; our king has all the Indies in his arms, And more, and richer, when he strains that lady. I cannot blame his conscience. (Shakespeare)
11. v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
12. v. 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.
13. v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
14. v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
15. v. 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.
16. v. 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
17. v. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
18. v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
water straining through a sandy soil
19. v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
20. v. To urge with importunity; to press.
to strain a petition or invitation
21. subst. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
22. subst. A 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
23. subst. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
24. subst. (engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
2. [1] eine soziale Gruppe, die aus mehreren Familien besteht; Stamm, Volksstamm
3. [2] eine Gruppe von Personen, die ein gemeinsames Interesse haben
4. [3] Biologie: eine Kategorie innerhalb der Taxotomie, die unterhalb der Subfamilie und oberhalb der Gattung liegt
[1] Our tribe has more than 400 tribesmen.
Unser Stamm hat mehr als Stammesangehörige.
[1] "The remains of the sloth tribe discovered in South America, have been amply described in the works of Pander and d'Alton, Cuvier, Owen, and Lund, and the object of the present memoir is to give an account exclusively of the remains of the same family, which have been found in North America."
1. subst. A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
2. subst. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
3. subst. (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
4. subst. The collective noun for various animals.
5. subst. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
6. subst. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
7. v. To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
trunk
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] aufrechtstehender Teil eines Baums zwischen den Wurzeln und den Ästen
3. [2] großer Koffer, der zumeist von zwei Personen getragen werden muss und einen aufklappbaren Deckel hat
4. [3] Anatomie: der Rumpf
5. [4] verlängerte und bewegliche Nase eines Elefanten
6. [5] AE Fahrzeug: Gepäckraum einer Limousine bzw. Großraumlimousine
7. [6] AE Fernmeldeverkehr: Verbindung zwischen Telefonzentralen oder anderen Schaltmitteln
8. [7] Rohr, Leitung oder wasserdichter Schacht, der zwei oder mehr Decks miteinander verbindet
trunk
1. subst. (heading, biological) Part of a body.
2. subst. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
3. subst. The torso.
4. subst. The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of ani
5. subst.A container.:
6. subst. A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at eac
7. subst. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or othe
8. subst. (US, Canada automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
9. subst.A channel for flow of some kind.:
10. subst. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
11. subst. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
12. subst. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill
13. subst. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
14. subst. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
15. subst. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
16. subst. The main line or body of anything.
the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
17. subst. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
18. subst. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
19. subst. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to
20. subst. Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
21. v. (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
22. v. (mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
1. subst. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. subst. A recurring idea; a motif.
3. subst. (dated) An essay written for school.
4. subst. (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
5. subst. (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
6. subst. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
7. subst. (grammar) The stem of a word.
8. subst. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
9. subst. (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
10. subst. (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
11. subst. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
12. v. To give a theme to.
We themed the birthday party around superheroes.
13. v. (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
phylum
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Biologie, Taxonomie, fachsprachlich: der Stamm, die Hauptabteilung im Tierreich
3. [2] Linguistik, fachsprachlich: übergeordnete Sprachfamilie von Sprachen, die möglicherweise zusammenhängen
phylum
1. subst. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.
2. subst. (linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.
1. subst. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
2. subst. A root vegetable.
3. subst. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
4. subst. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
5. subst. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
6. subst. The primary source; origin.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
7. subst. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
The cube root of 27 is 3.
8. subst. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
Multiply by root 2.
9. subst. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
10. subst. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
11. subst. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often der
12. subst. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
13. subst. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
14. subst. The lowest place, position, or part.
15. subst. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages account
I have to log in as root before I do that.
16. subst. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
I installed the files in the root directory.
17. subst. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
18. v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
19. v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
20. v. (computing, slang) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
21. v. To turn up or dig with the snout.
A pig roots the earth for truffles.
22. v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
23. v. (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
24. v. To root out; to abolish.
25. v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
26. v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots
The cuttings are starting to root.
27. v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
We rooted some cuttings last summer.
28. subst. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
Fancy a root?
29. subst. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
30. v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
1. subst. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. subst. A branch of a family.
3. subst. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
4. subst. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
5. subst. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
the stem of an apple or a cherry
6. subst. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
7. subst. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions deri
8. subst. (slang) A person's leg.
9. subst. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
10. subst. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
11. subst. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
12. subst. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
13. subst. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
14. subst. (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
15. subst. (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
16. v. To remove the stem from.
to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
17. v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
18. v. To descend in a family line.
19. v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
20. v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
21. v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
22. v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
to stem a tide
23. v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
24. subst. alternative form of steem
25. subst. alternative form of STEM
band
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Gruppe, Bande
3. [2] Musikgruppe
4. [3] Frequenzbereich
5. [4] Band zum binden von etwas
[1] The band of outlaws in Sherwood was led by Robin Hood.
[2] The band plays classic hits.
[3] the FM radio band
[4] wrap a band of tape
6. Verb:
7. [1] band together: sich zusammentun
[1] band together and raise funds
band
1. subst. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
2. subst. A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
3. subst. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
4. subst. A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
5. subst. A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
6. subst. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
7. subst. A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
8. subst. In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
9. subst. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
10. subst. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
11. subst. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
12. subst. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
13. subst. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
valence band; conduction band
14. subst. (obsolete) A bond.
15. subst. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
16. subst. (especially, American English) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
17. subst. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
18. subst. (medicine) (short for, band cell)
19. subst. (slang) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
20. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To fasten with a band.
21. v. (lbl, en, transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
22. subst. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
23. subst. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
24. subst. A marching band.
25. subst. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
26. subst. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
27. subst. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
28. v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
29. v. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of bind
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