Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tension
IPA transcription: [t'ɛnʃən]
Pronunciations of tension
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: tension, tenseness, stress
    Meaning: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
  • Synonyms: tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
    Meaning: the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"
  • Synonyms: tension
    Meaning: a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history"
  • Synonyms: tension
    Meaning: (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear"
Usage examples
  • seemed to relieve the tension of the moment.
  • In relief from the tension of his confession, his voice dropped lower as he said, 'Now you know me!'
  • There was something, it seemed to him, that the wrong word would bring down on his head, something that would so at least ease off his tension.
  • It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropical afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.
  • Spirits trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, a stranger, brought light.
  • Perhaps no one less familiar with her face than Darrow would have discerned the tension of the smile she transferred from himself to Owen Leath, or have remarked that her eyes had hardened from misty grey to a shining darkness.
  • Sea-folk held them at their true value, and esteemed the model a very sorry one, The rigging of the hooker was made of hemp, sometimes with wire inside, which was probably intended as a means, however unscientific, of obtaining indications, in the case of magnetic tension.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of New Jersey, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Stuttering, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Parity of zero, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lilith's Brood, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Controversy, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hurricane Ismael, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Pierre Trudeau, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Major depressive disorder, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sheffield, License CC BY-SA 4.0