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| stress | |
| 1. sost. (fisica), (meccanica) tensione, sollecitazione, sforzo | |
| 2. sost. (fisiologia) tensione, sforzo, stress | |
| 3. sost. spinta, pressione | |
| 4. sost. (linguistica) accento (tonico), accentazione | |
| 5. sost. (metrica), (musica) accento | |
| 6. sost. (senso figurato) accento, rilievo, risalto, enfasi | |
| 7. verb. (linguistica) accentare, mettere l'accento su, segnare l'accento su | |
| 8. verb. (senso figurato) sottolineare, far rilevare, mettere in evidenza, mettere in rilievo | |
| 9. verb. sottoporre a tensione | |
| 10. verb. sollecitare, sottoporre a sollecitazioni | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| stress | |
| 1. subst. (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism. |  |
| 2. subst. (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions. | |
| 3. subst. (physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ. | |
| 4. subst. (physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body. | |
| 5. subst. Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. | |
| Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately. | |
| 6. subst. (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. | |
| 7. subst. Emphasis placed on words in speaking. | |
| 8. subst. Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written). | |
| 9. subst. obsolete form of distress | |
| 10. subst. (Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained. | |
| 11. v. To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain. | |
| 12. v. To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal). | |
| 13. v. (informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated. | |
| 14. v. To emphasise (a syllable of a word). | |
| “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second. | |
| 15. v. To emphasise (words in speaking). | |
| 16. v. To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion. | |
| I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence. | |
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