What's the difference between bastard and strain?

Bastard


Definition:

  • (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
  • (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
  • (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
  • (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
  • (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
  • (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
  • (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
  • (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
  • (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
  • (v. t.) To bastardize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
  • (2) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
  • (3) An officer claimed McKenna had shouted: "Fucking Yankee bastards out."
  • (4) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
  • (5) The Duchess of Cambridge is too thin, has a “bastard of a job” and was pressured into getting pregnant a second time, Germaine Greer says.
  • (6) "Don't be such an ungrateful bastard," God snapped.
  • (7) ", but nothing helped, there was so much other noise – both the helicopter above us and the bastard's rifle.
  • (8) A nonchromaffin paraganglioma was found in the periglandular connective tissue of the glandula suprarenalis of a sheep-dog bastard and characterized by histological and immunohistochemical techniques.
  • (9) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
  • (10) She ended up having six children with him and he was a real bastard to her, left her when I was a baby.
  • (11) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
  • (12) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (13) For instance: I'd place a bet that if our Paralympic football team loses in the first round, they will still be described as "inspirational"; if the regular England team had done the same at Euro 2012 they would be called a bunch of bastards.
  • (14) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
  • (15) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
  • (16) "We told the mujahideen to leave it to us ordinary Fallujans, but those bloody bastards, the sheikhs and the clerics, are busy painting some bloody mad picture of heaven and martyrs and the victory of the mujahideen," said Ali, another refugee.
  • (17) Former leader Michael Howard, dubbed by John Major as one of the Eurosceptic "bastards", voiced strong backing.
  • (18) This has been encouraged by the press' standard strike narrative: these selfish bastards are striking, this is bad, and it will affect you in this awful unacceptable way of maybe making you slightly late for work.
  • (19) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (20) "I am now able to tell my staff there is light at the end of the tunnel rather than some bastard antagonising us with a torch."

Strain


Definition:

  • (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
  • (n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  • (n.) Rank; a sort.
  • (a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
  • (a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
  • (a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
  • (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
  • (a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  • (a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
  • (a.) To squeeze; to press closely.
  • (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  • (a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
  • (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
  • (v. i.) To make violent efforts.
  • (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
  • (n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  • (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
  • (n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
  • (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
  • (n.) 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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.
  • (n.) Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
  • (3) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (4) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
  • (6) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
  • (7) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
  • (8) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (9) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (10) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
  • (11) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
  • (12) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
  • (13) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (14) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
  • (15) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (16) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
  • (17) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
  • (18) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
  • (19) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
  • (20) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.