Strain vs Effect - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
* Shakespeare
* Darwin
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
* Tillotson
A tendency or disposition.
(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
(biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
(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.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
* Dryden
(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
* Dryden
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
* Jonathan Swift
To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
* Denham
* Shakespeare
To urge with importunity; to press.
* Shakespeare
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 11, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
(label) The track of a deer.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
The result or outcome of a cause. See below.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect , and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
* J. C. Shairp
* Washington Irving
(filmology) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
(sound engineering) An alteration in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
(sound engineering) A device for producing an alteration in sound produced by an instrument.
Execution; performance; realization; operation.
* Shakespeare
# (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
(usually plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to .
* Bible, Chron. xxxiv. 22
(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
* Denham
(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
* Shakespeare
To make or bring about; to implement.
In obsolete terms the difference between strain and effect
is that strain is the track of a deer while effect is manifestation; expression; sign.strain
English
(wikipedia strain)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- He is of a noble strain .
- With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
- There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
- They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
- the common strain
Quotations
* (English Citations of "strain")Etymology 2
From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .Verb
(en verb)- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- 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.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- To build his fortune I will strain a little.
- He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
- The quality of mercy is not strained .
- to strain a petition or invitation
- Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Noun
Michael Sivak
Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?, passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,
Liverpool 3-0 Man City, passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.}}
- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.
effect
English
(wikipedia effect)Noun
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- patchwork introduced for oratorical effect
- The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
- That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
- They spake to her to that effect .
- no other in effect than what it seems
- All the large effects / That troop with majesty.
Usage notes
The words “affect” and “effect'” can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word affect is limited to uses in the psychology field, and the above definitions for ' effect are much more common. See also the usage notes as a verb below. Adjectives often applied to "effect": * biological, chemical, cultural, economic, legal, mental, moral, nutritional, personal, physical, physiological, political and social * actual, bad, beneficial, catastrophic, deleterious, disastrous, devastating, fatal, good, harmful, important, intended, likely, natural, negative, positive, potential, primary, real, secondary, significant, special, strong, undesirable and weakDerived terms
(noun phrases using effect) * after-effect, aftereffect * butterfly effect * domino effect * Doppler effect * greenhouse effect * in effect * knock-on effect * Nader effect * personal effects * ripple effect * side effect * snowball effect * special effect * sound effect * spoiler effectVerb
(en verb)- The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.