Strain may refer to:
- Strain (biology), variants of plants, viruses or bacteria; or an inbred animal used for experimental purposes
- Strain (chemistry), a chemical stress of a molecule
- Deformation (mechanics), a geometrical measure of deformation representing the relative displacement between particles in a material body
- Strain (injury), an injury to a muscle in which the muscle fibers tear as a result of overstretching
- Strain (manga),a 1996 manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura, and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami
- Strain (music), a series of musical phrases that create a distinct melody of a piece
- Strain (album), a 2004 album by Flesh Field
- Strain, Arkansas
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Famous quotes containing the word strain:
“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can’t tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter; but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren’t handle high explosives; but you’re all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Women’s rights was an excellent doctrine to preach, but for practice could not stand the strain of such temptation.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“That strain again, it had a dying fall;
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more,
‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)