straining
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editstraining
- present participle and gerund of strain
Noun
editstraining (plural strainings)
- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- sundry violent gaspings and strainings
- filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
- 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists, page 64:
- Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.
Translations
editstraining/filtering something
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