Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 174
Strong (a.) (Gram.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular. -- F. A. March.
{Strong conjugation} (Gram.), The conjugation of a strong verb; -- called also {old conjugation}, or {irregular conjugation}, and distinguished from the {weak conjugation} or {regular conjugation}.
Note: Strong is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, strong-backed, strong-based, strong-bodied, strong-colored, strong-fisted, strong-handed, strong-ribbed, strong-smelling, strong-voiced, etc.
Syn: Vigorous; powerful; stout; solid; firm; hardy; muscular; forcible; cogent; valid. See {Robust}.
Strong (a.) Having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" [ant: {weak}].
Strong (a.) Not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber."
Strong (a.) Having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons" [syn: {potent}, {strong}].
Strong (a.) Having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink" [syn: {potent}, {strong}, {stiff}] [ant: {impotent}].
Strong (a.) Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection" [syn: {impregnable}, {inviolable}, {secure}, {strong}, {unassailable}, {unattackable}].
Strong (a.) Of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn: {solid}, {strong}, {substantial}].
Strong (a.) Of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb."
Strong (a.) Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: {hard}, {strong}].
Strong (a.) Freshly made or left; "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm" [syn: {strong}, {warm}].
Strong (a.) Strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope" [syn: {firm}, {strong}].
Strong, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 651
Housing Units (2000): 285
Land area (2000): 1.119860 sq. miles (2.900424 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.119860 sq. miles (2.900424 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67370
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.109856 N, 92.358353 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71765
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Strong, AR
Strong
Stronghand (n.) Violence; force; power.
It was their meaning to take what they needed by Stronghand. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Stronghold (n.) [C] 堡壘，要塞；大本營；據點，根據地 [（+of）] A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
Stronghold (n.) A strongly fortified defensive structure [syn: {stronghold}, {fastness}].
Stronghold (n.) [ C ] 要塞，堡壘；據點 A building or position that is strongly defended.
// A rebel stronghold.
// They captured the last stronghold of the presidential guard.
Stronghold (n.) [ C ] （特定信仰或活動的）勢力強大的地方，大本營，根據地 A place or area where a particular belief or activity is common.
// Rural areas have been traditionally thought of as a stronghold of old-fashioned attitudes.
Strongish (a.) Somewhat strong.
Strongly (adv.) 強有力地；強大地；堅固地，牢固地；堅強地；堅定地 In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
Strongly (adv.) With strength or in a strong manner; "argues very strongly for his proposal"; "he was strongly opposed to the government" [ant: weakly].
Strongly (adv.) In a powerful manner; "the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist" [syn: powerfully, strongly].
Strong-minded (a.) Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women. -- Strong"-mind`ed*ness, n.
Strong-minded (a.) Having a determined will [syn: strong-minded, strong-willed].
Strong-minded (a.) Marked by vigorous independence of thought and judgment.
Strong-water (n.) An acid.
Strong-water (n.) Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
Strongylid (a. & n.) Strongyloid.
Strongyloid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.
Strongyloid (n.) A strongyloid worm.
Strontia (n.) An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.
Strontian (n.) Strontia.
Strontianite (n.) Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.
Strontic (a.) Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.
Strontitic (a.) Strontic.
Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.
Strontium (n.) A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.
Strook () imp. of Strike.
Strook (n.) A stroke.
Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.
Strop (n.) A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
Stropped (imp. & p. p.) of Strop.
Stropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strop.
Strop (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
Strophes (n. pl. ) of Strophe.
Strophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.
Strophic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes. Strophiolate
Strophiolate (a.) Alt. of Strophiolated.
Strophiolated (a.) (Bot.) Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it. -- Gray.
Strophiole (n.) (Bot.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Strophulus (n.) [NL.] (Med.) See Red-gum, 1.
Compare: Red-gum
Red-gum (n.) (Med.) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus. -- Good.
Red-gum (n.) A name of rust on grain. See Rust. Red-hand
Stroud (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.
Stroud, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 2758
Housing Units (2000): 1325
Land area (2000): 11.496263 sq. miles (29.775182 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.986935 sq. miles (2.556150 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.483198 sq. miles (32.331332 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.759098 N, 96.652162 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stroud, OK
Stroud
Strouding (n.) Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.
Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Strove () imp. of Strive.
Strowed (imp.) of Strow.
Strown (p. p.) of Strow.
Strowed () of Strow.
Strow (v. t.) Same as Strew.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. -- Milton.
A manner turbid . . . and strown with blemished. -- M. Arnold.
Strowl (v. i.) To stroll. [Obs.]
Strown () p. p. of Strow.
Stroy (v. i.) To destroy. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Struck () imp. & p. p. of Strike.
Struck jury (Law), A special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to try the cause.
Struck (a.) (Used in combination) Affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: smitten, stricken, struck].
Struck, () pleadings. In an indictment for murder, when the death arises from any wounding, beating or bruising, it is said, that the word "struck" is essential. 1 Bulst. 184; 5 Co. 122; 3 Mod. 202; Cro. Jac. 655; Palm. 282; 2 Hale, 184, 6, 7: Hawk. B. 2, c. 23, s. 82; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *243 6 Binn. R. 179.
Strucken () Obs. p. p. of Strike. -- Shak.
Compare: Thunderstrike
Thunderstrike (v. t.) [imp. Thunderstruck; p. p. Thunderstruck, -strucken; p. pr. & vb. n. Thunderstriking.] To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. [R.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Thunderstrike (v. t.) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Drove before him, thunderstruck. -- Milton.
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
Structural (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.
Structural (a.) Relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society."
Structural (a.) Relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity."
Structural (a.) Affecting or involved in structure or construction; "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage."
Structural (a.) Concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study.
Structural (a.) Pertaining to geological structure; "geomorphological features of the Black Hills"; "morphological features of granite"; "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface" [syn: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural].
Structural (a.) Relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences" [syn: morphologic, morphological, structural].
Structure (n.) The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [R.]
His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. -- J. Dryden, Jr.
Structure (n.) Manner of building; form; make; construction.
Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. -- Woodward.
Structure (n.) Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.
It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. -- Dana.
Structure (n.) (Biol.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.
Structure (n.) That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
There stands a structure of majestic frame. -- Pope.
Columnar structure. See under Columnar.
Structure (n.) A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" [syn: structure, construction].
Structure (n.)
The manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts;
"artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the structure
of the benzene molecule."
Structure (n.) The complex composition of
knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures
have no structure."
Structure (n.) A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" [syn: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure].
Structure (n.) The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" [syn: social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure].
Structure (v.) Give a structure to; "I need to structure my days."
Structured (a.) (Biol.) Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.
The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process. -- H. Spencer.
Structured (a.) Having definite and highly organized structure; "a structured environment" [ant: unstructured].
Structured (a.) Resembling a living organism in organization or development; "society as an integrated whole" [syn: integrated, structured].
Structureless (a.) Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.
Structurist (n.) One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor. [R.]
Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares. [Written also strode.] [Obs.]
--Bailey.
Struggle (n.) 鬥爭；戰鬥；掙紮；努力 A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Struggle (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil. -- Macaulay.
Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference. -- Addison.
Syn: Endeavor; effort; contest; labor; difficulty.
Struggled (imp. & p. p.) of Struggle.
Struggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Struggle.
Struggle (v. i.) 奮鬥；鬥爭[（+for/ against/ with）] [+to-v]；努力；使勁；掙扎 [（+for）] [+to-v]；艱難地行進 [Q] (v. t.) 費力搬動或放置 To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
Struggle (v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract. -- Lincoln.
Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. -- Dryden.
Syn: To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.
Compare: Endeavour
Endeavour (US Eendeavor) (v.) [No object, with infinitive] 努力，力圖 [+to-v] Try hard to do or achieve something.
‘He is endeavouring to help the Third World.’
Endeavour (US Eendeavor) (n.) 努力，盡力 [C] [U] [+to-v] An attempt to achieve a goal.
[With infinitive] ‘An endeavour to reduce serious injury.’
Endeavour (US Eendeavor) (n.) [Mass noun ] Earnest, prolonged, and industrious effort.
‘Enthusiasm is a vital ingredient in all human endeavour.’
Endeavour (US Eendeavor) (n.) An enterprise or undertaking.
‘A portfolio of business endeavours.’
Endeavor (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Endeavored; p. pr. & vb. n. Endeavoring.] [Written also endeavour.] To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects. -- Ld. Chatham.
To endeavor one's self, to exert one's self strenuously to the fulfillment of a duty. [Obs.] "A just man that endeavoreth himself to leave all wickedness." -- Latimer.
Endeavour (n.) A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise" [syn: enterprise, endeavor, endeavour].
Endeavour (n.) Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try" [syn: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try].
Endeavour (v.) Attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy" [syn: endeavor, endeavour, strive].
Struggle (n.) An energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" [syn: {struggle}, {battle}].
Struggle (n.) An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"-- Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: {conflict}, {struggle}, {battle}].
Struggle (n.) Strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her."
Struggle (v.) Make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" [syn: {fight}, {struggle}].
Struggle (v.) To exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope".
Struggle (v.) Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: {clamber}, {scramble}, {shin}, {shinny}, {skin}, {struggle}, {sputter}].
Struggle (v.) Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" [syn: {contend}, {fight}, {struggle}].
Struggler (n.) One who struggles.
Struggler (n.) A person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort.
Strull (n.) A bar so placed as to resist weight.
Strummed (imp. & p. p.) of Strum.
Strumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strum.
Strum (v. t. & i.) To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
Struma (n.) (Med.) Scrofula.
Struma (n.) (Bot.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Struma (n.) Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet [syn: goiter, goitre, struma, thyromegaly].
Struma (n.) A form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands [syn: scrofula, struma, king's evil].
Strumatic (a.) Scrofulous; strumous.
Strumose (a.) (Med.) Strumous.
Strumose (a.) (Bot.) Having a struma.
Strumous (a.) (Med.) Scrofulous; having struma.
Strumousness (n.) The state of being strumous.
Strumpet (v. t.) To debauch. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Strumpet (v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.
With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. -- Massinger.
Strumpet (n.) A prostitute; a harlot. -- Shak.
Strumpet (a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.
Out on thy more than strumpet impudence. -- B. Jonson.
Strumpet (n.) A woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop].
Strumpet. () A harlot, or courtesan: this word was formerly used as an addition. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.
Strumstrum (n.) A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern. [R.] -- Dampier.
Strung () imp. & p. p. of String.
Strung (a.) That is on a string; "keys strung on a red cord."
Strunt (n.) Spirituous liquor. [Scot.] -- Burns.
Struntian (n.) A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Struse (n.) (Naut.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Strut (v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
Strut (a.) Protuberant. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Strutted (imp. & p. p.) of Strut.
Strutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strut.
Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out. [R.]
The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. -- Dryden.
Strut (v. t.) To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait? -- Shak.
Strut (n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
Strut (n.) (Arch.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
Strut (n.) (Engin.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
Strut (n.) A proud stiff pompous gait [syn: strut, prance, swagger].
Strut (n.) Brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression.
Strut (v.) To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" [syn: tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock].
Struthian (a.) (Zool.) Struthious.
Struthiones (n. pl. ) of Struthio.
Struthio (n.) (Zool.) A genus of birds including the African ostriches.