Distress
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Distress may refer to:
- Distress (medicine)Distress (medicine)In medicine, distress is an aversive state in which an animal is unable to adapt completely to stressors and their resulting stress and shows maladaptive behaviors...
, occurring when an individual cannot adapt to stress - SufferingSufferingSuffering, or pain in a broad sense, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical or mental. It may come in all degrees of intensity, from mild to intolerable. Factors of duration and...
- Distress signalDistress signalA distress signal is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help. Distress signals take the form of or are commonly made by using radio signals, displaying a visually detected item or illumination, or making an audible sound, from a distance....
, an internationally recognized means for obtaining help - Distressed inventory, the process whereby materials are worn down by time and natural forces.
- DistressingDistressingDistressing in the decorative arts is the activity of making a piece of furniture or object appear aged and older, and there are many methods to produce an appearance of age and wear. Distressing is viewed as a refinishing technique although it is the opposite of finishing in a traditional sense...
, making clothing, furniture and household objects look old - Distress, or distraintDistraintDistraint or distress is "the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed", especially in common law countries...
, the act of seizing goods to compel payment - Distress (novel)Distress (novel)Distress is a 1995 science fiction novel by Australian writer Greg Egan.-Plot summary:It describes the political intrigue surrounding a mid-twenty-first century physics conference, at which is to be presented a unified Theory of Everything. In the background of the story is an epidemic mental...
a novel by Greg Egan