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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -stress suffix forming nouns - indicating a woman who performs or is engaged in a certain activity
Etymology: from -st( e) r + -ess stress /strɛs/USA pronunciation n. - importance or significance attached to a thing;
emphasis:[uncountable]to lay stress upon good manners. - Phoneticsemphasis or force expressed as the relative loudness of a speech sound, syllable, or word: [uncountable]The word promise has stress on the first syllable.[countable]Count the stresses in the word supermarket.
- Music and Danceaccent (def. 7 ).
- the physical force exerted on one thing by another* strain: [uncountable]The airplane wing snapped from stress.[countable]The stresses were large enough to snap the airplane wing completely off.
- Psychiatryphysical, mental, or emotional strain that disturbs one's normal bodily functions: [uncountable]Job-related stress was giving him an ulcer.[countable]the stresses of two jobs, a family, and a full-time course load at school.
v. [~ + object] - to emphasize;
give or attribute (importance) to something:He stressed the need for higher education. - Phoneticsto utter (a speech sound, syllable, or word) with noticeable loudness:You should stress the first and third syllables in the word supermarket.
stress•ful, adj.: a long, stressful workday. stress•ful•ly, adv. -stress, WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stress (stres),USA pronunciation n. - importance or significance attached to a thing;
emphasis:to lay stress upon good manners. - Phoneticsemphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of special effort in utterance.
- Poetry[Pros.]accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern;
beat. - Music and Danceemphasis in melody, rhythm, etc.;
beat. - the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another;
strain. - [Mech.]
- Mechanicsthe action on a body of any system of balanced forces whereby strain or deformation results.
- Mechanicsthe amount of stress, usually measured in pounds per square inch or in pascals.
- Mechanicsa load, force, or system of forces producing a strain.
- Mechanicsthe internal resistance or reaction of an elastic body to the external forces applied to it.
- Mechanicsthe ratio of force to area.
- Physiologya specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism.
- Psychiatryphysical, mental, or emotional strain or tension:Worry over his job and his wife's health put him under a great stress.
- Psychiatrya situation, occurrence, or factor causing this:The stress of being trapped in the elevator gave him a pounding headache.
- [Archaic.]strong or straining exertion.
v.t. - to lay stress on;
emphasize. - Phoneticsto pronounce (a syllable or a word) with prominent loudness:Stress the first syllable of "runner.'' Stress the second word in "put up with.''Cf. accent (def. 18).
- Physiology, Psychiatryto subject to stress or strain.
- [Mech.]to subject to stress.
- 1275–1325; (noun, nominal) Middle English stresse, aphetic variant of distresse distress; (verb, verbal) derivative of the noun, nominal
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged anxiety, burden, pressure, worry.
-stress, - a feminine equivalent of -ster: seamstress;
songstress.
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