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• STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, See also:

• STRING

string, &c.)  , to draw out, extend, stretch, especially with the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of See also:

• GREAT

great effort or beyond measure or limit; hence, from the idea of pressure or constriction, to See also:

• SEPARATE

separate coarser matte or See also:

• LIGHT

light solids from a liquid by pressure through a " strainer,'' which may be either a See also:

• SIEVE (O.E. sife, older sibi, cf. Dutch zeef, Ger. Sieb; from the subst. comes O.E. siftan, to sift)

sieve or a colander (See also:

• LAT

Lat. colare, to See also:

• STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain), a See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel with perforations in the bottom . Another type is the See also:

• FILTER (a word common in various forms to most European languages, adapted from the medieval Lat. fi-ltrum, felt, a material used as a filtering agent)

filter (q.v.) . Straining can also be effected by means of cloths, and the name strainer is used of a coarse open See also:

• CLOTH

cloth usually of See also:

• FLAX

flax; a coarser cloth of a more open texture is technically known as " See also:

• SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl

screw." For " strains "and" stresses " in physics see See also:

• MECHANICS

MECHANICS; See also:

• ELASTICITY

ELASTICITY and STRENGTH OF MATERIALS .