Counterpressure vs Counterpressured - What's the difference?
counterpressure | counterpressured |
Pressure applied in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 25, author=William Grimes, title=Gone With the Windmill Farms, or, a Cape Cod Cautionary Tale, work=New York Times
, passage=Gradually, as the furor over Cape Wind gained national attention (in part because of an article in The New York Times Magazine), environmental groups like Greenpeace and powerful politicians in favor of alternative energy projects began to apply effective counterpressure . Mr. Cronkite, after sitting down and talking over the project with Mr. Gordon, withdrew his opposition. }}
To apply pressure to (something) in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.
(counterpressure)
Pressure applied in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 25, author=William Grimes, title=Gone With the Windmill Farms, or, a Cape Cod Cautionary Tale, work=New York Times
, passage=Gradually, as the furor over Cape Wind gained national attention (in part because of an article in The New York Times Magazine), environmental groups like Greenpeace and powerful politicians in favor of alternative energy projects began to apply effective counterpressure . Mr. Cronkite, after sitting down and talking over the project with Mr. Gordon, withdrew his opposition. }}
To apply pressure to (something) in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.
As verbs the difference between counterpressure and counterpressured
is that counterpressure is to apply pressure to (something) in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another while counterpressured is (counterpressure).As a noun counterpressure
is pressure applied in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.counterpressure
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