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Definition of straining

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Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

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Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..

Control :: Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive..

Constraintive :: Constraintive (a.) Constraining; compulsory.

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd..

Compulsory :: Compulsory (a.) Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

Styptic :: Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

Coaction :: Coaction (n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling..

Strain :: Strain (n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained..

Unstrained :: Unstrained (a.) Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk..

Control :: Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..

Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought..

Labor :: Labor (n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

Distrainor :: Distrainor (n.) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..

Filtrate :: Filtrate (v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation..

Strain :: Straining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strai.

Namation :: Namation (n.) A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding.

Continent :: Continent (a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.