- strain away
- transitive verbabseihen; abgießen [Wasser]* * *transitive verbabseihen; abgießen [Wasser]
English-german dictionary. 2013.
English-german dictionary. 2013.
strain — [n1] pain, due to exertion ache, anxiety, bruise, brunt, burden, constriction, effort, endeavor, exertion, force, injury, jerk, pressure, pull, sprain, stress, stretch, struggle, tautness, tension, tensity, twist, wrench; concept 728 Ant. health … New thesaurus
Strain theory (sociology) — In criminology, the strain theory states that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime. Following on the work of Émile Durkheim, Strain Theories have been advanced by Merton (1938), Cohen (1955), Cloward and Ohlin… … Wikipedia
strain every nerve — to try extremely hard to do something. I was straining every nerve to catch what they were saying but they were sitting just a bit too far away from me … New idioms dictionary
strain — I v 1. tighten, draw tight or taut, stretch, extend, elongate, distend. 2. exert to the utmost, sharpen, whet, hone, make keen, sensitize; rack the brain, peel the eye, squint, listen hard, cock the ear, keep one s ears open. 3. sprain, wrench,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Sōkō no Strain — Infobox animanga/Header name = Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry caption = Sara and her contemporaries ja name = 奏光のストレイン ja name trans = genre = Mecha, Military, PsychologicalInfobox animanga/Anime title = director = Tetsuya Watanabe studio =… … Wikipedia
The Deviant Strain — Doctorwhobook title=The Deviant Strain series=New Series Adventures number=4 featuring=Ninth Doctor Rose, Captain Jack writer=Justin Richards publisher=BBC Books isbn=ISBN 0 563 48637 6 set between=The Doctor Dances and Boom Town pages=… … Wikipedia
Marilyn Chambers (Home and Away) — For the actress and model, see Marilyn Chambers. Marilyn Chambers Home and Away character Portrayed by Emily Symons Introduced by Des Monaghan (1989) … Wikipedia
Allylic strain — or 1,3 allylic strain in organic chemistry and its associated strain energy results from an unfavorable molecular conformation for the allyl group. The simplest representative of the allyls, propene, in its ground state has the methyl C H bond… … Wikipedia
Breaking Strain (short story) — Breaking Strain, also known as Thirty Seconds Thirty Days, is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949. It was adapted into a movie in 1994 under the title [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108380/ Trapped in Space] .Plot… … Wikipedia
To ease away — Ease Ease ([=e]z), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Eased} ([=e]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Easing}.] [OE. esen, eisen, OF. aisier. See {Ease}, n.] 1. To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Punitive damages — (termed exemplary damages in the United Kingdom) are damages not awarded in order to compensate the plaintiff, but in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the… … Wikipedia