0 present participle of strain --
1 to separate liquid food from solid food, especially by pouring it through a utensil with small holes in it: --
2 to become stretched or to experience pressure, or to make something do or experience this: --
3 to cause too much of something to be used, especially money: --
Straining to hear, you are already drawn into another life, someone else's business, and for that moment you leave yourself unprotected.
Instead, we have investigated two steady flows: axisymmetric straining, and shear.
This question cannot be answered a t the moment because there has been no direct investigation of the stability of axisymmetric straining flow.
In the present work we study the deformation of a cell in an imposed uniaxial straining flow.
In the following section, we shall discuss chaotic bubble motion and breakup in time-periodic straining flows.
Progress to this columnar stage is relatively slow with a timescale much greater than a millisecond and the gravity-induced straining is clearly important.
Mysticetes have baleen plates that act like a giant filter, straining small animals (such as plankton and krill) from the seawater.
This is not a lot to ask, and it should be possible to meet these criteria without straining anyone's budgets unduly.
