strained

adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: {labored},

{laboured}]

2: under great stress; "her voice was strained as she asked the

question"

3: lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile";

"forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: {constrained},

{forced}]

4: struggling for effect; "agonistic poses" [syn: {agonistic}]

Strand

1. {AND-parallel} {logic programming} language. Essentially

flat {Parlog83} with sequential-and and sequential-or

eliminated.

["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et

al, P-H 1990]. {Strand88} is a commercial implementation.

2. A query language, implemented on top of {INGRES} (an

{RDBMS}). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM

SIGMOD Conf 1981].