Advocate vs Stress - What's the difference?
advocate | stress |
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
* c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , First Folio 1623:
A person who speaks in support of something.
* 2011 , Alix Lee, The Guardian , 9 Oct 2011:
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
(label) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Bishop Sanderson
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Burke)
(label) To encourage support for something.
To engage in advocacy.
(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by
(countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
(uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
(Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
(informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
To emphasise (words in speaking).
To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
As nouns the difference between advocate and stress
is that advocate is someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel while stress is stress (emotional pressure).As a verb advocate
is (label) to plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.advocate
English
Noun
(en noun)- I neuer did incense his Maiestie / Against the Duke of Clarence, but haue bin / An earnest aduocate to plead for him.
- He became a tireless advocate for the needs of adults with IMD throughout Britain and internationally.
- ''Since she started working with her advocate , she has become much more confident.
Derived terms
* devil's advocateVerb
(advocat)Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----stress
English
Noun
- Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
- Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (phonetics) accent, emphasis * (on words in speaking) emphasis * (on a point) emphasisVerb
- “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
- I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.