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How to pronounce “strain”

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Pronunciation guide for strain

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of strain with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Extreme-3D Printingof the materials properties, some of the stress strain
Definition summary: (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.

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Extreme-3D Printing

of the materials properties, some of the stress strain

[Noun]
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
(figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
(music, poetry) 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.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
[Verb]
(transitive, obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
(transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
(transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
(transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
(ambitransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
(transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
(transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
(intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
(transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
(transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
(transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.