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Meanings of strain in English
A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
Portuguese
distensão muscular Spanish
desgarrarse 
Injury to a muscle in which the muscle fibers tear as a result of overstretching.
Synonyms
Examples for "air"
Examples for "air"
1
Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food.
2
But, in contrast, Sydney's north will actually have good air quality today.
3
Asked if he wanted less use of air power, Karzai said, Absolutely.
4
Hope Lee was given the opportunity to allow his story to air.
5
Beginning at sea level, air weighs about 15 pounds per square inch.
1
Western Europe asked North America, Military Intelligence, and Halo to remain on-line.
2
So just top line question; is wearing sunscreen still a good idea?
3
The line I remember was 'Change before they change you.' Autonomy, right?
4
Therefore this time line possible: -maybe contracted last Saturday at ACB event.
5
Take a good look at its product line over the past year.
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That said; you may need to be quite in-tune with incoming information!
2
Everyone needs to tune in and listen carefully for change to come.
3
But Ms Bolger said the Australian government was not changing its tune.
4
Surely the owner must have the principal say in calling the tune.
5
He's a fine lilter too, carrying a tune by any means necessary.
1
His guitar added texture and counter melody which made good songs great.
2
It is in the key of D, the melody opening for horn.
3
And as they worked, they usually sang some simple melody without words.
4
There is nothing of this in the melody of the second movement.
5
The melody itself is plaintive; a plaintive grace informs the entire piece.
1
So would the seamless match of words to melodic line.
2
I wanted the word to be able to find its own sound, to draw its own melodic line.
3
He played the adagio movement first, lingering on the graceful phrases, the swell and rise of the melodic line.
4
He's the man who carried classical harmonies and a simplicity of melodic line into the dark heart of romantic sensibility.
5
Compare the wall of pounding, resonant percussion heard in Man of Steel to the peppy melodic line from Driving Miss Daisy.
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Another useful exercise at this stage is to let the children add a second part, either above or below a given melodic phrase.
2
In rendering purely melodic phrases, Herr Formes was not so preëminent as in declamatory passages.
Usage of strain in English
1
Health services always come under extra strain at this time of year.
2
Russia recorded several cases of this strain of the virus last year.
3
Argentina's health ministry has confirmed one case of the new flu strain.
4
Differential exposure to financial strain may explain some differences in population health.
5
Aid agencies worry that the huge influx will strain present government resources.
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But state officials say the other cases are all the same strain.
7
Instituting the new groupthink in 2006, however, was not without internal strain.
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This is the same strain that has been affecting poultry in Europe.
9
John's birth had put the great maternal animal to a severe strain.
10
Ties with China are also under strain over trade and technology issues.
11
The water placed quite a strain on the Bowmore Chamber of Commerce.
12
Results: The ASV group had lower alveolar strain than the VCV group.
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But so far from home, without a path, the strain was extreme.
14
Afghan civilian deaths caused by Nato attacks have added to the strain.
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Power cuts will put these businesses, and the economy, under further strain.
16
CDAD rates and severity are increasing, possibly due to a new strain.
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Strain through the time
Strain across language varieties
South Africa
Common
United States of America
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New Zealand
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