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How to pronounce strain?

This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of strain by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of strain through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of strain is /strˈeɪn/.

Definition of strain according to Wiktionary:
strain can be a noun, a verb or a name

As a noun strain can mean:
1. Treasure.
2. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
3. Race; lineage, pedigree.
4. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
5. A tendency or disposition.
6. 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.
7. A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
8. 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.
9. A kind or sort (of person etc.).
10. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
11. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
12. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
13. A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
14. The track of a deer.

As a verb strain can mean:
1. To hold tightly, to clasp.
2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
7. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
8. To percolate; to be filtered.
9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
10. To urge with importunity; to press.
11. To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

As a name strain can mean:
Surname.


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