Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 171
Striation (n.) 【書】條紋 The quality or condition of being striated.
Striation (n.) A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
Striation (n.) Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue [syn: stria, striation].
Striation (n.) A stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" [syn: band, banding, stria, striation].
Striatum (n.) [NL.] (Anat.) The corpus striatum.
Striatum (n.) A striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus [syn: corpus striatum, striatum, striate body].
Striature (n.) A stria.
Strich (n.) (Zool.) An owl. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. -- Knight.
Stricken (v. t. p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Note: [See Strike, n.]
Stricken (v. t.) Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.
Abraham was old and well stricken in age. -- Gen. xxiv. 1.
Stricken (v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. [Scot.]
He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle. -- Sir W. Scott.
Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week. -- Bayne.
Stricken (a.) Grievously affected especially by disease [syn: afflicted, stricken].
Stricken (a.) (Used in combination) Affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: smitten, stricken, struck].
Stricken (a.) Put out of action (by illness) [syn: laid low(p), stricken].
Strickle (n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
Strickle (n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
Strickle (n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
Strickle (n.) A templet; a pattern.
Strickle (n.) An instrument used in dressing flax.
Strickler (n.) See Strickle.
Strickless (n.) See Strickle.
Strict (a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
Strict (a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Strict (a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
Strict (a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
Strict (a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Strict (a.) (B1) 要求嚴格的，嚴厲的 Strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do not obey.
// My parents were very strict with me when I was young.
// Stricter controls on air pollution would help to reduce acid rain.
// A strict curfew has been imposed from dusk till dawn.
// We follow very strict guidelines on the use and storage of personal details on computers. Do you think stricter gun laws would reduce the murder rate in the United States?
// The drug should only be administered under strict medical supervision.
// The negotiations took place in strict (= total) secrecy.
See also Restrict (v.) [ T ] (C1) 限制；限定；妨礙 To limit the movements or actions of someone, or to limit something and reduce its size or prevent it from increasing.
// Measures to restrict the sale of alcohol.
// The government has restricted freedom of movement into and out of the country.
// Having small children really restricts your social life.
Phrasal verb: Restrict yourself to sth
Restrict yourself to sth (- phrasal verb with restrict) (v.) [ T ] 約束自己不越出…的範圍；將自己限制在…限度內 To limit yourself to one particular thing or activity.
// If I'm driving, I restrict myself to one glass of wine.
Strict (a.) (C2) 精確的，完全正確的；嚴謹的 Exactly correct.
// A strict translation of the text.
He would be found guilty under a strict interpretation of the law.
Strict (a.) (B2) 恪守信條的，嚴格遵循（某種生活方式）的；不折不扣的；（信條或原則）必須恪守的 Used to refer to someone who follows the rules and principles of a belief or way of living very carefully and exactly, or a belief or principle that is followed very carefully and exactly.
// His parents were strict Catholics.
// She's a strict vegetarian and refuses to eat any poultry or fish.
In the/ a strict sense 從嚴格意義上來說 In the most limited meaning of a word, phrase, etc..
// These were not funerals in the strict sense of the word; there were no caskets or physical remains.
// This peasant economy should not be considered "subsistence" in a strict sense.
Idiom: In the strictest confidence
In the strictest confidence 極其秘密地 If you tell someone something in the strictest confidence, you expect them not to tell it to anyone else.
Stricter (a.) 更嚴格的 More rigid or exacting in enforcing rules: stricter parents.
Striction (n.) The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.
Strictly (adv.) 嚴格地，完全地 In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
Strictness (n.) Quality or state of being strict.
Stricture (n.) Strictness.
Stricture (n.) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
Stricture (n.) A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
Stricture (n.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
Strictured (a.) Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
Strid (n.) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
Strode (imp.) of Stride.
Strid () of Stride.
Stridden (p. p.) of Stride.
Strid () of Stride.
Striding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stride.
Stride (v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
Stride (v. t.) To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
Stride (v. t.) To pass over at a step; to step over.
Stride (v. t.) To straddle; to bestride.
Stride (n.) The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
Strident (a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
Stridor (n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.
Stridulate (v. t.) To make a shrill, creaking noise.
Stridulate (v. t.) To make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Stridulation (n.) The act of stridulating.
Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
Stridulation (n.) The noise itself.
Stridulator (n.) That which stridulates.
Stridulatory (a.) Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.
Stridulous (a.) Making a shrill, creaking sound.
Strife (n.) The act of striving; earnest endeavor.
Strife (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
Strife (n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
Strife (n.) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
Strifeful (a.) Contentious; discordant.
Strigate (a.) Having transverse bands of color.
Striges (n. pl.) The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.
Strigil (n.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender bristles.
Strigine (a.) Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.
Strigment (n.) Scraping; that which is scraped off.
Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
Strigous (a.) Strigose.
Struck (imp.) of Strike.
Struck (p. p.) of Strike.
Stricken () of Strike.
Stroock () of Strike.
Strucken () of Strike.
Striking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strike.
Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius. -- Shak.
Strike (v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
Strike (v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts. -- Ex. xii. 7.
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. -- Byron.
Strike (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
Strike (v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
Strike (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity. -- Prov. xvii. 26.
Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
Strike (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
Strike (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view. -- Atterbury.
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. -- Pope.
Strike (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! -- Landor.
Strike (v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. -- Milton.
Strike (v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
Strike (v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
Note: Probably borrowed from the L. foedus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and
killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.
Strike (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money. [Old Slang]
Strike (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
Strike (v. t.) (Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
Strike (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang]
Strike (v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. -- B. Edwards.
Strike (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. -- 2 Kings v. 11.
Strike (v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. "Well struck in years." -- Shak.
To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance.
To strike a jury (Law), To constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. -- Burrill.
To
strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore.
To strike a lead. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.]
To strike a ledger or To strike an account, To balance it.
To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. -- Halliwell.
To strike hands with. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with.
To strike off. (a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt.
To strike off. (b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book.
To strike off. (c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt.
To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.]
To strike one luck, To shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
To strike out. (a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel.
To strike out. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. "To methodize is as necessary as to strike out." -- Pope.
To strike out. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance.
To strike out. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike,
Strike (v. i.) To strike sail. See under Sail.
To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the drums." -- Shak.
To strike up. (b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune.
To strike up. (c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.
To strike work, To quit work; to go on a strike.
Strike (v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. -- Piers Plowman.
Strike (v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell. -- Spenser.
Strike now, or else the iron cools. -- Shak.
Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
Strike (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. -- Byron.
Strike (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
A puny subject strikes At thy great glory. -- Shak.
Struck for throne, and striking found his doom. -- Tennyson.
Strike (v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish. -- Locke.
Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
Strike (v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
Till a dart strike through his liver. -- Prov. vii. 23.
Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. -- Dryden.
Strike (v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.