📖 S — The English dictionary · page 105

stroll — Everyday, meaning 1: To walk slowly and in a relaxed way, for pleasure, not in a hurry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A slow, relaxed walk.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Something very easy to win or do: «the match was a stroll».↗ Example: We went for a stroll along the beach after lunch.↗ · Grandpa likes to stroll around the park.↗ · She strolled into class five minutes late, as if nothing was wrong.↗ · Let's take a stroll to the shops.↗ · The couple strolled hand in hand.↗ · (informal) The final was a stroll — we won 6 to 0.↗ · If you stroll at 4 km an hour, you cover 2 km in half an hour.↗ · One day he went out for a stroll.↗

strong — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a lot of power in your body.↗ e.g. "a strong man".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not easy to break or damage.↗ e.g. "a strong rope".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Having a big effect.↗ e.g. "strong wind", "a strong smell".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: With a lot of flavour.↗ e.g. "strong tea".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Firm and sure.↗ e.g. "a strong belief".↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Good at something.↗ e.g. "a strong reader".↗ Example: Exercise makes your muscles strong.↗ · This rope is very strong.↗ · A strong wind blew down the tree.↗ · The coffee is too strong.↗ · Bleach has a strong smell.↗ · Maths is her strong subject.↗ · Grandpa is still going strong.↗ · Steel is stronger than wood.↗ · It was very large and strong.↗ · but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.↗ (Torah GEN.30.42, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Thou shalt not pass through.'↗ And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.↗ (Torah NUM.20.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.↗ (Torah DEU.29.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Why is thy strong one overthrown?↗ (Prophets JER.46.15, JPS 1917)↗ · A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches.↗ (Writings PRO.11.16, JPS 1917)↗ · She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.↗ (Writings PRO.31.17, JPS 1917)↗

stronghold — Everyday, meaning 1: A stronghold is a strong, well-defended place such as a castle or fort that is hard to attack.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A stronghold is also a place where a group, idea, animal or plant is still strong and common.↗ e.g. "The Highlands are a stronghold of the red squirrel."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In politics, a stronghold is an area where most people support one party.↗ Example: The knights retreated to their stronghold on the hill.↗ · The castle was a stronghold that no army could take.↗ · Scotland is a stronghold for red squirrels.↗ · The rebels held a stronghold in the mountains.↗ · This town is a stronghold of the Labour Party.↗ · The villain's stronghold was hidden under the sea.↗ · The island is the last stronghold of the rare bird.↗ · She travelled in the direction of Iollan’s stronghold.↗ · and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; (Torah NUM.13.19, JPS 1917)↗ · God in her palaces hath made Himself known for a stronghold.↗ (Writings PSA.48.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.↗ (Prophets ISA.23.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.↗ (Prophets 1SA.24.1, JPS 1917)↗

strongly — Everyday, meaning 1: Strongly means with a lot of strength or force.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strongly means very much or very firmly, about feelings and opinions, like «strongly agree».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Strongly can mean with a strong taste or smell, like «smells strongly of fish».↗ Example: I strongly agree that we need a longer playtime.↗ · The room smelled strongly of paint.↗ · She strongly believes in being kind to animals.↗ · The wind blew strongly all night.↗ · The magnet pulls strongly on the paper clip.↗ · The doctor strongly advised him to rest.↗ · He is a strongly built rugby player.↗ · I strongly disagree with that idea.↗ · She was now twelve years old, and strongly built.↗ · Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who held strongly with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.↗ (Writings 1CH.11.10, JPS 1917)↗

strontium — Everyday, meaning 1: Strontium is a soft, silvery metal, a chemical element with the symbol Sr and atomic number 38.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strontium compounds give fireworks and flares a bright red colour.↗ Example: Strontium makes fireworks burn bright red.↗ · The symbol for strontium is Sr.↗ · Strontium was named after a village in Scotland.↗ · Strontium is a metal in the same group as calcium.↗ · Red emergency flares contain strontium.↗ · Strontium-90 is a dangerous radioactive form.↗

struck — Everyday, meaning 1: Hit someone or something hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of lightning: hit something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Of a clock: rang a bell to show the time.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Of an idea or feeling: came suddenly to someone's mind.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Lit a match by rubbing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Stopped work as a protest (as in a strike).↗ Everyday, meaning 7: To strike terror into someone is to make them suddenly very frightened.↗ Example: Lightning struck the old oak tree.↗ · The clock struck twelve at midnight.↗ · It suddenly struck me that I'd left my bag on the bus.↗ · The ship struck a rock and began to sink.↗ · He struck a match to light the candle.↗ · The ball struck the window and cracked it.↗ · We were struck by how big the whale was.↗ · The workers struck for better pay.↗ · The command struck terror among the beasts.↗ · And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore unto David, and it was very sick.↗ (Prophets 2SA.12.15, JPS 1917)↗ · My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour, if thou hast struck thy hands for a stranger — (Writings PRO.6.1, JPS 1917)↗ · 'They have struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake?↗ (Writings PRO.23.35, JPS 1917)↗

structural — Everyday, meaning 1: Structural means to do with the structure of something: how its parts are built, joined or organised.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Structural damage is damage to the main frame of a building or object, which can make it unsafe.↗ Example: The earthquake caused structural damage to the school.↗ · Triangles are strong structural shapes.↗ · A structural engineer checked the old bridge.↗ · We looked at the structural features of a newspaper article.↗ · The tower had a structural weakness.↗ · Steel beams give the building structural strength.↗

structuralism — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An approach to a subject that looks at the basic patterns and structure that hold its parts together.↗

structure — Everyday, meaning 1: A structure is something that has been built, like a bridge, tower or building.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The structure of something is how its parts are arranged and fit together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Structure means order and organisation.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: verb.↗ e.g. To structure something means to plan and arrange its parts.↗ Example: The Eiffel Tower is a famous metal structure.↗ · We built a structure from straws and tape.↗ · Triangles make a structure stronger.↗ · Look at the structure of the story.↗ · The structure of a flower includes petals and stamens.↗ · Structure your essay with paragraphs.↗ · Children need structure in their day.↗ · All these structures were built neither of stone nor wood.↗ · A soft and hard structure, a strong and weak structure.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · I base it off an interpretation of the SY’s internal structure, the semantic properties of the root ספ״ר SPR, and the SY’s general grammatical inventiveness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' [Genesis 1:2], allowing structure and order to exist in creation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The breadth of the outer wall which belonged to the side-chambers was five cubits; and so that which was left by the structure of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.↗ (Prophets EZK.41.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And against the wall of the house he built a side-structure round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the sanctuary; and he made side-chambers round about; (Prophets 1KI.6.5, JPS 1917)↗

struggle — Everyday, meaning 1: To struggle means to try very hard to do something difficult.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To struggle means to fight or twist your body to get free.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A struggle is a hard effort or a fight.↗ Example: I struggled with my long division at first.↗ · The baby bird struggled to get out of its egg.↗ · Getting up early on Monday is a struggle.↗ · The cat struggled out of my arms.↗ · Plants struggle to grow in the desert.↗ · He was struggling to carry the heavy box, so I helped.↗ · If you see someone struggling in the water, shout for a lifeguard.↗ · The struggle began, and a terrible struggle it was.↗ · And the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?'↗ And she went to inquire of the LORD.↗ (Torah GEN.25.22, JPS 1917)↗

struggling — Everyday, meaning 1: Struggling means trying very hard to do something that is difficult («struggling with maths»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Struggling means fighting or twisting your body to get free («The bird was struggling in the net»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an adjective, struggling describes people or things having a hard time, such as a struggling business or team.↗ Example: I'm struggling with my long division.↗ · The swimmer was struggling, so the lifeguard threw a ring.↗ · The cat was struggling to get out of the box.↗ · He is struggling to make friends at his new school.↗ · They were struggling up the steep hill on their bikes.↗ · If you are struggling, ask for help.↗ · The struggling shop closed last month.↗ · The fly was struggling in the spider's web.↗ · Then suddenly a dove was struggling in her arms, and almost flew away.↗

strum — Everyday, meaning 1: To strum is to play a guitar, ukulele or similar instrument by brushing your fingers or a pick across the strings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strum is one brush across the strings, or the sound it makes.↗ Example: She strummed her ukulele and sang a song.↗ · We learned to strum a C chord in music.↗ · He was strumming his guitar by the campfire.↗ · Down, down, up — that's the strumming pattern.↗ · Strum gently, not too hard.↗ · With one strum, the whole room went quiet.↗ · Dad strums along when we sing in the car.↗ · The Prince sat down and strummed away on the lute [gusli].↗

strung — Everyday, meaning 1: Strung is a form of «string».↗ Beads strung on a thread are put on it one after another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strung means hung up on a string or line: «lights strung across the street».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A strung instrument or racket has its strings fitted.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Highly strung means easily upset or nervous.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Strung up can also mean hanged on a gallows until dead.↗ Example: She strung 24 beads on a necklace.↗ · Lights are strung every 2 metres along the fence.↗ · He strung 3 red beads, then 2 blue ones, again and again.↗ · How many beads are strung on 5 bracelets of 12 each?↗ · Flags were strung across the street for the fair.↗ · The walkers were strung out along the path.↗ · He strung together a few words of French.↗ · The new guitar is strung with nylon strings.↗ · Now if we remain here we shall die of hunger, and if we move out we shall be strung up on the gallows.’↗

strut — Everyday, meaning 1: To strut is to walk in a proud, stiff way, with your chest out and head up, to show off.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strut is a bar or rod that holds up or strengthens part of a structure, like a bridge, a roof or an aircraft wing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Strut your stuff» (informal) means to show off what you can do, especially when dancing.↗ Example: The rooster strutted across the farmyard.↗ · He strutted into class wearing his new trainers.↗ · The peacock strutted and spread its tail.↗ · We used straws as struts to make our tower stronger.↗ · The bridge is held up by steel struts.↗ · The old plane had wooden struts between its wings.↗ · Get on the dance floor and strut your stuff!↗ · She strutted around after winning the race.↗ · They said, "See how that fellow struts at the head of his little flock!"↗

stuart — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Stuart is a boy's first name and also a surname, used especially in Scotland, England and other English-speaking countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) The Stuarts were a royal family who ruled Scotland and then England, Scotland and Ireland from 1603 to 1714, including James I, Charles I, Charles II and Queen Anne.↗ Example: My uncle's name is Stuart.↗ · The Stuarts came after the Tudors.↗ · James I was the first Stuart king of England.↗ · The Great Fire of London happened in Stuart times.↗ · We made a timeline of the Stuart monarchs.↗ · Queen Anne was the last Stuart ruler.↗