Noun

(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by

(countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.

(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.

(uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.

Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.

(uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.

(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

(Spenser)

(Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

Noun

(en noun)

A particular way of phrasing an idea.

A colloquialism or idiom.

A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}

(mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.

(biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.

(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.

Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.