different between stricture vs strangling
stricture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin strict?ra, from Latin strictus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st??kt???(?)/
- enPR: str?k'ch?r
- Rhymes: -?kt??(r)
Noun
stricture (countable and uncountable, plural strictures)
- (usually in the plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
- a general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology
- I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
- a sternly critical remark or review
- (medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
- (obsolete) strictness
- (obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants
Related terms
Translations
Latin
Participle
strict?re
- vocative masculine singular of strict?rus
stricture From the web:
- stricture meaning
- what structure contains dna
- what structure stores bile
- strictureplasty what to expect
- stricture what does it mean
- what is stricture urethra
- what causes strictures in the esophagus
- what are strictures in the esophagus
strangling
English
Verb
strangling
- present participle of strangle
Noun
strangling (countable and uncountable, plural stranglings)
- The crime of killing by strangling.
Translations
strangling From the web:
- strangling meaning
- strangling what does it mean
- what does strangling someone in a dream mean
- what does strangling in a dream mean
- what causes strangling cough
- what was strangling the south as the war continued
- what causes strangling
- what is strangling angel
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- stricture vs strangling
- abundantly vs estimably
- imposing vs fancy
- ancestor vs model
- call vs christen
- rising vs elevation
- bigness vs vastness
- saw vs dice
- pay vs receipts
- intoxication vs earnestness
- upbringing vs rearing
- deftness vs genius
- rash vs unpremeditated
- thrash vs shove
- rebuke vs punishment
- extreme vs bizarre
- inhuman vs detestable
- twitch vs fit
- unseasoned vs unfledged
- poisoning vs dirtiness