[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lateral \lat"eral\, a. l. lateralis, fr. latus, lateris, side:
   cf. f. lat'eral.
   1. of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a
      house; the lateral branches of a tree.
      1913 webster

   2. anat. lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from
      the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.
      1913 webster

   3. directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.
      1913 webster

   lateral cleavage crystallog., cleavage parallel to the
      lateral planes.

   lateral equation math., an equation of the first degree.
      obs.

   lateral line anat., in fishes, a line of sensory organs
      along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct
      line of color.

   lateral pressure or stress mech., a pressure or stress
      at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; --
      distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress.

   lateral strength mech., strength which resists a tendency
      to fracture arising from lateral pressure.

   lateral system bridge building, the system of horizontal
      braces as between two vertical trusses by which lateral
      stiffness is secured.
      1913 webster lateral
see also:
mesial lateral cleavage lateral equation lateral line lateral pressure stress 
lateral strength lateral system 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stress \stress\, n. abbrev. fr. distress; or cf. of. estrecier
   to press, pinch, assumed ll. strictiare, fr. l. strictus.
   see distress.
   1. distress. obs.
      1913 webster

            sad hersal of his heavy stress.       --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things;
      except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight;
      significance.
      1913 webster

            the faculties of the mind are improved by exercise,
            yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their
            strength.                             --locke.
      1913 webster

            a body may as well lay too little as too much stress
            upon a dream.                         --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   3. mech.  physics the force, or combination of forces,
      which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or
      manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and
      taking specific names according to its direction, or mode
      of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear
      or tangential stress. --rankine.
      1913 webster

            stress is the mutual action between portions of
            matter.                               --clerk
                                                  maxwell.
      1913 webster

   4. pron. force of utterance expended upon words or
      syllables. stress is in english the chief element in
      accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. see
      guide to pronunciation, sectsect 31-35.
      1913 webster

   5. scots law distress; the act of distraining; also, the
      thing distrained.
      1913 webster

   stress of voice, unusual exertion of the voice.

   stress of weather, constraint imposed by continued bad
      weather; as, to be driven back to port by stress of
      weather.

   to lay stress upon, to attach great importance to; to
      emphasize. "consider how great a stress is laid upon this
      duty." --atterbury.

   to put stress upon, or to put to a stress, to strain.
      1913 webster
see also:
distress guide to pronunciation stress of voice stress of weather to lay stress upon to put stress upon 
to put to a stress 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stress \stress\ stre^s, v. t.
   1. to press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
      r. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. to subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
      1913 webster

   3. to subject to phonetic stress; to accent.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   4. to place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.
      webster 1913 suppl.

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stress
     n 1: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
          especially with regard to stress or pitch; "he put the
          stress on the wrong syllable" syn: emphasis, accent
     2: psychology a state of mental or emotional strain or
        suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional
        tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor" syn: tension, tenseness
     3: physics force that produces strain on a physical body;
        "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force
        divided by units of area"
     4: special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more
        on accuracy than on speed" syn: focus
     5: difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she
        endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided
        over the economy during the period of the greatest stress
        and danger"- r.j.samuelson syn: strain
     v 1: to stress, single out as important; "dr. jones emphasizes
          exercise in addition to a change in diet" syn: emphasize,
           emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
     2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "in farsi, you accent
        the last syllable of each word" syn: accent, accentuate
     3: test the limits of; "you are trying my patience" syn: try,
         strain
see also:
emphasis accent tension tenseness focus strain 
emphasize emphasise punctuate accentuate try 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

309 moby thesaurus words for "stress":
   alexandrine, accent, accentuate, accentuation, ache, aching,
   adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation,
   ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, amphibrach, amphimacer,
   anacrusis, anapest, anguish, annoyance, antispast, anxiety, arsis,
   assault, bacchius, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat, belabor, blight,
   blow, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bummer, bump, bump against,
   bunt, burden, butt, butt against, cadence, caesura, care,
   catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, clutch, colon, compulsion,
   concern, concernment, conflict, consequence, consequentiality,
   consideration, constraint, counterpoint, cram, cramp, cretic,
   crisis, cross, crowd, crunch, curse, cut, dactyl,
   dactylic hexameter, decompensation, diaeresis, difficulties,
   difficulty, dig, dimeter, dipody, distress, disturb, dochmiac,
   dolor, downer, drive, dwell on, elbow, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
   elegiac pentameter, emergency, emotional shock, emphasis,
   emphasize, epitrite, excellence, exigency, external frustration,
   feature, feminine caesura, focus on, foot, force, forcefulness,
   frustration, give emphasis to, goad, grief, harass, hard knocks,
   hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harp on, haul, head,
   heave, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody,
   high order, high pressure, high rank, highlight, hurt, hurtle,
   hustle, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, imperativeness,
   import, importance, impulse, impulsion, injury, insistence,
   interest, ionic, irk, irritation, italicize, jab, jam, jingle, jog,
   joggle, jolt, jostle, lesion, level of stress, lilt, mark,
   masculine caesura, materiality, measure, mental shock,
   mental strain, merit, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot,
   metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, moment,
   mora, movement, nasty blow, nervous strain, nervous tension, note,
   nudge, numbers, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overexert,
   overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress,
   overtax, overtaxing, paeon, pain, pang, paramountcy, passion,
   pentameter, pentapody, period, pile drive, pinch,
   place emphasis on, play up, plight, point up, poke, precedence,
   predicament, preeminence, press, pressure, primacy, primary stress,
   priority, proceleusmatic, prod, prominence, prosodics, prosody,
   psychological stress, pull, punch, punctuate, push, pyrrhic,
   quantity, rack, ram, ram down, rash impulse, rattle, rhythm,
   rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, rigor, rub in, run,
   run against, sea of troubles, secondary stress, self-importance,
   shake, shock, shoulder, shove, significance, sore, sore spot,
   spasm, spondee, spotlight, sprung rhythm, star, strain,
   strain every nerve, straining, stress accent, stress and strain,
   stress of life, stress pattern, stressfulness, stretch, stroke,
   suffering, superiority, supremacy, sweat blood, swing, syzygy,
   tamp, tautness, tax, taxing, tender spot, tense, tenseness,
   tension, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis,
   throes, thrust, torque, torsion, trauma, traumatism, trial,
   tribrach, tribulation, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
   trouble, troubles, try, tug, underline, underscore, upset, urge,
   urgency, vale of tears, value, vicissitude, weak stress, weight,
   worry, worth, wound, wrench

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

stress
     
        structual engineering systems solver.
     
        a system for structural analysis problems in civil
        engineering.  stress was superseded by strudl.
     
        "stress: a user's manual", s.j. fenves et al, mit press
        1964.
     
        sammet 1969, p. 612.
     
        1995-01-31
     
     
see also:
strudl 

Stress >> S Words
Stress, definition of term: Stress
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Stress Mark >> S Words
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