What's the difference between energise and strain?

Energise


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
  • (2) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
  • (3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
  • (4) Publishing a list of hospital closures next April – a year before a general election – promises to energise opposition both outside and inside the coalition over the NHS.
  • (5) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
  • (6) Addition of as little as 0.5 microM Mn2+ to energised mitochondria from rat liver, rat heart or guinea-pig brain changed the level at which they buffered Ca2+ in the medium.
  • (7) It may prove an inspired gamble that energises the Tory base with a simple offer that cuts straight through to the ballot box.
  • (8) ATPase activity was less susceptible to delipidation than energisation but was, nevertheless, strongly inhibited at 50 percent lipid depletion.
  • (9) The central finding of the study, which included evidence from 169 key figures in the social work sector, was that outstanding leaders create a climate that energises teams to improve the impact they make, giving them stability, clear direction and definition of role, and the space and time to reflect on practice and to develop their own leadership skills.
  • (10) The results in this paper are discussed in the context of the mechanisms which have been proposed to account for the fluorescence enhancements of N-aryl naphthalene sulphonate probes upon energisation of submitochondrial particles.
  • (11) There was another huge cheer when Zaha’s name was read out, and for a while Palace were energised by the buoyant atmosphere.
  • (12) When the membrane is energised however, the bound nucleotides can exchange with added nucleotides and incorporate 32Pi.
  • (13) There were still quite a few Marxists at Oxford in those days – Terry Eagleton and his clique were seemingly bolted to the same table in the King’s Arms the entire time I  was an undergraduate – but while I was silly and naive enough to believe in the purifying, energising effects of violent revolution, I wasn’t obtuse enough to think of dialectical materialism as anything more than a powerful heuristic.
  • (14) Corbyn victory energises the alienated and alienates the establishment | Gary Younge Read more The existing shadow justice secretary, Lord Falconer, an ally of Burnham and one-time Blairite, will remain shadow lord chancellor.
  • (15) The effect of the approximately hyperbolic relationship between fluorochrome concentration and light absorbed on the interpretation of data for the binding of 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulphonate to unenergised and succinate-energised submitochondrial particles has been investigated.
  • (16) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
  • (17) A comparison of the probe responses to energisation with ATP or to a potassium diffusion potential has been made.
  • (18) She's starting this week, and I feel lighter and more energised for it.
  • (19) Kohl says that environmentally-aware German consumers, up to and including the police, have been energised by the Greenpeace campaign against Shell and are planning a mass boycott.
  • (20) The three nations are members of a loose Russia-dominated security alliance known as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) , which has accelerated efforts to create a unified air defence network as the Ukraine crisis re-energises the West’s military powerhouse, Nato .

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.

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