Stress
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
(2): ( v. t.) To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.
(3): ( n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
(4): ( n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
(5): ( n.) Distress.
(6): ( n.) Pressure, strain; - used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
(7): ( v. t.) To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.
(8): ( n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
(9): ( v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
King James Dictionary [2]
Stress, n.
1. Force urgency pressure importance that which bears with most weight as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.
This, on which the great stress of the business depends--
2. Force or violence as stress of weather. 3. Force violence strain.
Though the faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.
Stress, To press to urge to distress to put to difficulties. Little used.
