STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

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STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.) , to draw out, extend, stretch, especially with the

idea

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

great

GREAT

effort or beyond measure or limit; hence, from the

idea

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

of pressure or constriction, to

separate

SEPARATE

coarser matte or light solids from a liquid by pressure through a " strainer,'' which may be either a sieve or a colander (Lat. colare, to strain), a metal

vessel

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

with perforations in the bottom. Another type is the

filter

FILTER (a word common in various forms to most European languages, adapted from the medieval Lat. fi-ltrum,
felt
- FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")
, a material used as a filtering agent)

(q.v.). Straining can also be effected by means of cloths, and the name strainer is used of a coarse open

cloth

CLOTH

usually of flax; a coarser

cloth

CLOTH

of a more open texture is technically known as "

screw

SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl

."
For " strains "and" stresses " in physics see

MECHANICS

MECHANICS

; ELASTICITY and STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.

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