strain
/stɹeɪn/ sustantivo B1En español: cepa, raza, linaje, variedad
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one. · They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition. · There is a strain of madness in her family.
- 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, etc.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
Plural strains
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Well, am I to rush into his arms, and strain him to my heart, crying, ‘My father, my father!’ like Monsieur Pixérécourt.”
It had also been noted and commented upon by a few observant people that there were signs sometimes of some nerve-strain upon the part of Mrs.
“Do you know, Villefort, that you are talking in a most dreadfully revolutionary strain?
Not so much bodily exertion, you understand, as the strain upon the mind.
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