strain
If I lift a barrel of water, can I say my arms are tight with strain?
How do you understand this when I say 'strain' ?
Here are the definitions of strain.
1.Strain is an injury to a muscle in your body, caused by using the muscle too much or twisting it
2. If you strain a muscle, you injure it by using it too much or twisting it.
Obviously I intended to include the first one in my sentence. I don't you know if you will perceive it as in the second definition?
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Yes, you can.
The definitions are in fact referring to the same idea. The only difference is that in the first it's a noun (a strain) and in the second it's a verb (to strain a muscle). They are not definitions of different concepts - they both define a type of injury.
In your sentence it is a noun, but we would understand it in a slightly less medical sense - simply that your muscles were stretched very tight. There is no suggestion of injury, just of force.
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Both of those definitions look the same to me.
However in that sentence 'strain' means something else. It refers to the force your arms are undergoing.
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