Compressed vs Adamantine - What's the difference?
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Pressed tightly together.
Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
(compress)
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
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*1984 , Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" in Carole S. Vance, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 267-319.
Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Compressed is a related term of adamantine.
As adjectives the difference between compressed and adamantine
is that compressed is pressed tightly together while adamantine is made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.As a verb compressed
is (compress).compressed
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(en adjective)- Him the Almighty Power
- Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
- With hideous ruine and combustion down
- To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
- In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
- Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
- Sex law is the most adamantine instrument of sexual stratification and erotic persecution.