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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Discordia, Eris, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bloat, bloating, breaking point, cankerworm of care, care, chill, chilliness, clash, clashing, clutch, coldness, concern, concernment, conflict, contention, coolness, crisis, crunch, disaccord, disaffinity, discomfort, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disquiet, disquietude, distension, distress, disturbance, dread, edginess, elongation, emergency, enmity, exigency, extension, extreme tension, fear, fidgetiness, firmness, force, foreboding, forebodingness, friction, frost, haul, heave, high pressure, iciness, imperativeness, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inflation, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inhospitality, inimicality, inquietude, jangle, jar, jitteriness, jumpiness, lengthening, malaise, mental strain, mischief, misgiving, nerves, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, noncooperation, open conflict, overanxiety, overdistension, overdrawing, overexertion, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretching, overtaxing, personal conflict, perturbation, pinch, pins and needles, press, pressure, production, prolongation, protraction, pucker, pull, rack, renitence, renitency, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rub, snapping point, solicitude, starchiness, stew, stiffness, strain, strained relations, straining, stress, stress and strain, stressfulness, stretch, stretching, stringing out, suspense, swelling, tautness, taxing, tenseness, tensity, tightness, traction, trouble, tug, unamiability, uncordiality, unease, uneasiness, unfriendliness, ungeniality, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, unquietness, unsociability, upset, urgency, vexation, worry, zeal |
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Dictionary Results for tension: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
tension
n 1: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or
suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension";
"stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: tension, tenseness,
stress]
2: the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it
places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the
tenseness of her body" [syn: tension, tensity,
tenseness, tautness]
3: a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or
tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a
tension created between narrative time and movie time";
"there is a tension between these approaches to understanding
history"
4: (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic
physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves
asymptotically toward the direction of the shear"
5: feelings of hostility that are not manifest; "he could sense
her latent hostility to him"; "the diplomats' first concern
was to reduce international tensions" [syn: latent
hostility, tension]
6: the action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the
belt in the pulleys"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tension \Ten"sion\, n. [L. tensio, from tendere, tensum, to
stretch: cf. F. tension. See Tense, a.]
1. The act of stretching or straining; the state of being
stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being
bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of
the larynx.
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2. Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling;
intense effort.
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3. The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of
timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the
direction of its length; strain. --Gwilt.
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4. (Mech.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming
part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the
tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that
weight.
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5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a
sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required
degree of tightness.
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6. (Physics) Expansive force; the force with which the
particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each
other and occupy a larger space; elastic force;
elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.
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7. (Elec.) The quality in consequence of which an electric
charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a
spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less
electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of
electricity upon a given area.
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Tension brace, or Tension member (Engin.), a brace or
member designed to resist tension, or subjected to
tension, in a structure.
Tension rod (Engin.), an iron rod used as a tension member
to strengthen timber or metal framework, roofs, or the
like.
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Common Misspellings > |
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