Meaning

• (Cause of) discomfort.

• Serious danger.

• An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.

• A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.

• The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

Meaning

• A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.

• Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.

• 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.

• Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.

• Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.

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

• 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."

• Emphasis placed on words in speaking.

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

• Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

Meaning

• To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.

• To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).

• To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.

• To emphasise (a syllable of a word).

  "“Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second."

• To emphasise (words in speaking).

• To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.

  "I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence."