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strainings

strainings is the plural of straining.

Meaning of straining

Noun

straining (plural strainings)

  1. The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
    • sundry violent gaspings and strainings1851 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
  2. filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
    • 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.1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists, page 64

Questions about strainings

What is strainings the plural of?
Strainings is the plural of straining.

Words near strainings in the dictionary

  1. straining every nerve
  2. straining piece
  3. straining pieces
  4. straining the potatoes
  5. strainingly
  6. strainings
  7. strainless
  8. strainlessly
  9. strainlessness
  10. strainmeter
  11. strainmeters

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